Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alpine circuit was a dangerous 352-mi. triangle crossing a 3,000-ft. range to Thun, thence over the 13,000-ft. Jungfrau to Bellinzona, the last lap over 11,000-ft. Scheerhorn Peak and back to Zurich. The German three-plane patrol made it in 58 min. 52.7 sec. of flying time and the Czechs, flying not quite up-to-date Avias were second in little over an hour. Their elapsed time, however, was less than that of the Germans. Meet crowds showed a tendency to cheer the Czechs, jeer the Germans...
...Institute of Geographical Exploration, son of the dean of the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge. Mass., trekked into Valdez, Alaska with news that on July 9, he and his friend Robert H. Bates of Philadelphia had reached the top of iy,150-ft. Mt. Lucania, highest unclimbed peak in North America...
...their oil lands, Peter and his friends start a pipe line to the refinery. The railroad's strong-arm gang, headed by Peter's loud-mouthed neighbor, Red Scanlon (Charles Bickford), tries to break the line, buy out the land it crosses. The conflict reaches its peak in a magnificent free-for-all when, racing to put down the last three miles of line before their contract expires, the oilmen farmers are attacked by Red's gang on a rock-bluff. Aided by a carnival troupe complete with elephants, which has been summoned by Sally who knows...
...profits up from $1,474,000 to $2,811,000.- C, Sharing the paperboard industry s record business in the first half of 1937. Walter Paul Paepcke's Container Corp. made more money than in any six-month period in the company's history. After the spring peak the paperboard business slumped badly, is currently in the doldrums...
...cotton exports have dropped steadily from an average of 8,300,000 bales a year between 1924 and 1929 to 6,000,000 bales last year and about 5,500,000 in the current cotton year. However, AAA short crops helped cut the annual carry-over from a towering peak of 9,580,000 bales to 5,324,000 bales at the end of the last cotton year. The estimated carryover this year will be down to 4,400,000. As last week cotton's crucial season was just beginning, these estimates had little effect on cotton...