Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...construction slows down. Last week WPA added 60,000 workers to its rolls, two-thirds of them in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions. Similar increases will be made each week during the remainder of July, to bring WPA's total payroll to 2,935,700. The winter peak will be slightly more than 3,000,000 workers...
...President Roosevelt's National Resources Committee last week reported that the U. S. population will reach a minimum peak of 139,457,000 in 1960 (based on low birth rate, medium death rate, no immigration), or a maximum peak of 174,330,000 in 1980 (based on high birth rate, low death rate, no immigration). Between 1935 and 1975, persons 20 to 44 years old will increase by 6% , persons...
Such was the scene that greeted U. S. sightseers who went for an auto ride one day last week to the top of Pikes Peak. There, along the highway, from Crystal Creek to the summit (12½ miles), 15 sturdy runners plodded along in a unique contest called the Vertical Mile Marathon, sponsored by the Colorado Springs Junior Chamber of Commerce. At the snow-banked summit (14,108 ft. above sea level and exactly one mile higher than the starting point), a sunburned crowd of 300 watched all but five of the runners finish...
...Colorado Springs, oldest entrant in the race, who finished seventh. Called upon by broadcasters to say a few words over the radio, Mr. Ormsby was in a sorry predicament. The patrolman to whom he had entrusted his false teeth was at that moment chasing a holiday tippler down the peak...
...broad index of business is the volume of bank loans to commerce, industry and agriculture, tabulated each week in 101 cities by the Federal Reserve System. During Recovery I these loans revived with general business in the spring of 1936, by last October reached a peak of $4,868,000,000. Then with Depression II they plopped to $3,916,000,000 for the week ended June 22. Last week, for the first time in 21 weeks, the Federal Reserve's tabulation showed a rise. The substantial $20,000,000 rally made economists wonder if the turn had come...