Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Primary season reached a peak this fortnight, with ten States going to the polls within eight days. In none except Tennessee (see p. 13) was heat generated equal to Kentucky's. The source of Kentucky's heat was a pitcher of ice water. For the closing hours of the race between Governor "Happy" Chandler and Majority Leader "Dear Alben" Barkley for the latter's Senate seat were enlivened by the "poisoning" of Candidate Chandler (TIME...
...Eiger, a 13,042-ft. peak in the Jungfrau range, was first scaled in 1858, has been climbed many times since. But until three years ago, the Eiger had never been tackled via its north wall-a terrifying, ice-coated precipice over a mile high. Then two glory-greedy Germans decided to attempt it. They never returned. Nor did seven others who tried...
...send him in a specially purchased plane to Alaska to work the claim. Last week Hollywood heard what happened: 1) the gold mine was a fake; 2) the prospector had flown the coop; 3) the smashed plane had to be abandoned; 4) Alaska had a newly christened peak. Name: "Flynn's Folly...
...week signed a one-year contract with TIME Inc., covering 350 employes of TIME, LIFE, FORTUNE, ARCHITECTURAL FORUM and the MARCHES OF TIME (radio and cinema). Some provisions: five-day, 40-hour week, with equal time off for overtime; severance pay of one and one-half week's peak salary for each six months of service up to a maximum of $5,000. Minimum wages: $20 a week for untrained office boys; $35 for darkroom assistants, $45 for cataloguers, $50 for proofreaders, $55 for film handlers (negative matchers, film librarians, etc.), $65 for draftsmen, $75 for photographers, film editors...
Efforts to end this stalemate reached a peak last month just before Congress passed the Lend-Spend bill. A provision in this bill forbidding PWA to build any more power plants in competition with private companies was removed by White House request, but Senate Majority Leader Barkley announced that "the President does not contemplate" any further such competition "unless and until such municipality as may apply for such allocation has in good faith made an offer to purchase the existing private plant...