Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...During the years 1929 to 1936, when the country was passing through a cyclical depression, the number of the unemployed mounted to unprecedented heights. Often the average was more than ten million; at times a peak was attained of 16 million or more. Disaster to the breadwinner meant disaster to dependents. Accordingly the roll of the unemployed, itself formidable enough, was only a partial roll of the destitute or needy. The fact developed quickly that the States were unable to give the requisite relief. The problem had become national in area and dimensions. ... It is too late today...
...museums of natural history. In 1933 Chicago's Field Museum took care of 3,269,300, last year 1,191,437. In 1933 Los Angeles' Museum of History, Science & Art attendance was 1,276,911, last year 597,079. It and other museums attribute their peak popularity to Depression when free entertainment and shelter attracted full houses. This year attendance is generally increasing, apparently due to new interests which museum directors are stirring in their communities. And every new interest stirs a hope for gifts in the management's heart...
...insurance company disbursements accounted for 6.6% of the average national income- nearly $10,000,000 daily. Total assets of all U. S. life insurance companies climbed steadily to the present all-time high, nearly $25,000,000,000. Total insurance in force was below the boom peak but still at the incredible figure of $104,000,000,000. It was not precisely true that life insurance had weathered Depression without damage (more than 40 companies went into receivership) but the record was comparable only to that of mutual savings banks...
...ferment of Labor activity which, with the President fishing and Congress loafing, continued to make most national news, reached a pipsqueak peak last week in Manhattan when, in effect, Betty Boop and Popeye the Sailor went on strike. Actual strikers were most of the 135 employes of Fleischer Studios Inc., producers of Boop, Popeye and other animated cartoons. Shouldering placards displaying the cartoon characters and such legends as "We can't get much spinach on salaries as low as $15," they blocked the sidewalk in front of the Studio's building in Times Square, scuffled with police...
...trophy planned as a memorial to Newell Bent, Jr. '33, who died in January 1936 in attempting to scale Acongagua, highest peak of the Andes, will be the prize when the first Pan-American downhill skiing championship is held in Chile this July...