Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the U. S. Office of Education in Washington estimated elementary school enrollment this fall at 20,206,000 pupils-1,000,000 fewer than at the 1930 peak. The downhill trend whose start accompanied a rapid fall in the birth rate during Depression is expected to continue at least until...
...depths of 1933 depression. Its hefty size, he-man articles, sexy cartoons and drawings of flashy men's fashions immediately found it a public favor never achieved by less flamboyant aspirants such as Vanity Fair. Despite its 50? price, Esquire boomed at once, last February reached a peak circulation of 610,000. For the fiscal year ended March 1937 it had a gross advertising revenue of $2,770,000, circulation revenue...
...Labor Day week-end delivered a message to the Union on the State of Labor. For all U. S. Labor the preceding twelve months had been-by moderate estimate-the most significant in history. Both in power and numbers the U. S. Labor movement reached an all-time peak. In its Wagner Act decisions the Supreme Court had substantially upheld the labor laws of the New Deal. Springing full-grown from the forehead...
Hong Kong itself is an island topped with ''The Peak" (1,774 ft.), on the landward side of which clings the city of Victoria-a colorful jumble of Chinese tenements and British business blocks whose over-dignified architecture justifies the city's name...
...globe almost as big as his head. Satisfaction is also to be derived from gulping back bubbles of moderate size, making them pop inside the mouth. As millions of U. S. moppets return to school this month these practices are going to be more prevalent, because September is a peak month for sales of "Blony" bubble...