Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Heaviest of heavy industry, Steel had pounded along at 72% of capacity all through August, reaching its highest production peak since...
...year-old Jefferson, scandalizing British Minister Merry by receiving him in comfortable, heelless slippers, created an international sensation when he dispensed with precedents at State functions. The relationship of Mrs. Merry to Irish Poet Tom Moore, the amours of Captain Zebulon Pike, discoverer of Pike's Peak, the marriage of Jerome Bonaparte to Betsy Patterson of Baltimore, the domestic difficulties of the French Minister, who frequently beat his wife-such topics dominated the gossip of a provincial capital that was growing too worldly for its own good...
Express facilities in a college town are taxed with two "peak load" periods, the incoming in September, and the exodus in June. But the reserve power of a national organization is such that the smooth functioning of the home-to-room service is unimpaired in efficiency. The express agency does the job in one motion, saving the trouble of moving by separate stages...
...Cement shipments reached a five-year peak. Manufacturers predicted total shipments of 100,000,000 bbl. for the year, 33% above last year...
...cotton season progresses, less & less interest is taken in production, more & more in consumption. Cotton consumption throughout the world in the season just ended set a new high, exceeding even the 1928-29 peak when the world used 25,778,000 bales. Meantime world carry-over has been reduced from a staggering total of 17,600,000 bales in 1932 to about 12,500,000 bales which is not far above normal. In the dark of Depression the U. S. carry-over accounted for no less than 13,000,000 of the world's 17,600,000 bales. Today...