Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Claude and Esther. His roustabouts wear natty, filling-station-style uniforms with cowboy hats, clown around on bucking steers between sales. Buzz himself is no mail-order Westerner. Colorado-born, he worked for a spell as a brakeman on Spencer Penrose's Pike's Peak cog road. As a prelude to his success story, he tells the curious: "I'm no relation to the ex-President, the G-Man or the vacuum cleaner...
...Copper sales fell off 95% from their boom peak in September...
...Month I of War II U. S. production jumped from 102% of the 1923-25 average to 110. Beginning of Month II, production was around 115, headed for the 1937 peak of 118. Guarantee of its getting there is the fact that the output of U. S. industry is sold out until the end of the year, that most industries have stopped booking orders, are concentrating on making deliveries...
Copper. But on the outskirts of the buying rush stand some industries which have already passed the peak mark of sales, are declining. Typical is copper, which the Allies have passed by in favor of purchases from African, Chilean, and Canadian sources; Germany, in favor of Balkan metal. In September copper sales had set an all time record (183,627 tons). Copper sellers sagely guarded against White House strictures on profiteering by stabilizing the price at 12? a pound. They guarded against overproduction by rationing customers. By the beginning of October sales had gone as low as 4,000 tons...
...into Spain, Bessie and his fellow volunteers had to climb over the Pyrenees one windy, cold night with small paper parcels as their only baggage. At dawn they stood exhausted on a peak, their city overcoats whipping their legs, and looked south for 50 miles over peaceful country. On the way down they met three women dressed in black. "When we passed we saw that they were poor peasants; one young, one middleaged, one old. They smiled and said, 'Salud! Salud Compañeros!' The oldest said nothing...