Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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PRESIDENT SCALES PEAK...
...line of cars pull out for Toledo. The Toledo meeting claimed 702 delegates from 70 locals, representing more than half U. A. W.'s 400,000 membership. (The Mortimer faction last week told C. I. O. Boss Lewis that its dues collections were 30% of U. A. WVs peak.) An anti-Martinite but no extremist, Walter Reuther, head of Detroit's huge West Side local, hedged by attending the Detroit meeting himself, sending his brother Victor to the other meeting. Next day in Cleveland, Homer Martin ridiculed the rumpsters' figures, claimed his union was stronger than ever...
...Malta fever and Brucellosis are commonly known in the U. S. as undulant fever. First reported U. S. epidemic occurred in Phoenix, Ariz, in 1922, and the number of cases has steadily in creased. Last week the U. S. Public Health Service announced that 1938 promises to be a peak year for undulant fever, with almost 2,000 cases reported to date, twice as many as in the same period of 1937. Hardest hit is the southwest cattle region...
...furnishes its fussiest star with her first role since Romeo and Juliet and maintains its position as the industry's supreme spendthrift. The picture presents French royalty as what it always has been for the cinema: a field day for dressmakers and writers of "O Sire" dialogue. The peak moment of Marie Antoinette occurs when Miss Shearer appears in a little number run up for her by MGM's famed Adrian, the skirt of which is held out by three-foot fenders on each side with two handles for its occupant to hold when turning corners...
...readings for both and dividing by two. Weathermen called it a "fool word" but according to Mr. Hevener (who last week escaped the humiture by motoring to Quebec) this figure "gives the man in the street a better index of the summertime torture to which he is being subjected." Peak Manhattan humiture: (with temperature 76 and humidity 98% of saturation...