Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Morning competition in Philadelphia was supplied by rambunctious New Dealer J. (for Julius) David Stern and his bustling Record (circulation: 221,927). When the Paternõtres sold out for $15,000,000 cash last week, the Inquirer had a daily circulation of 277.994, nearly 700,000 on Sundays. (Peak circulation, in 1934: 295,735.) Philadelphia newsmen guessed that the new management would oust Publisher Tyler and oldtime Editor John T. Custis, keep most of the staff...
...collapse on Manchester's 76,000 inhabitants. Manchester grew up around the Amoskeag mills. Over half of the very land it stands on was sold or deeded to the city by Amoskeag owners. Since 1805 Amoskeag has provided the city's business lifeblood. At the peak of its prosperity in 1921, Amoskeag's red-brick plants, stretching for almost a mile along the Merrimack River (see cut), employed 18,000 workers, paid nearly one-half the city's industrial payroll. Last week Amoskeag's workers, jobless for ten months, had at least the certainty that...
Among liquor men the conviction has lately grown that whiskey's necessary overproduction has reached its limit. With an all-time record output of 22,000,000 gal. in May, U. S. whiskey stocks for the first time mounted above the pre-Prohibition peak to a total of 281,208,000 gal. At the same time, withdrawals of whiskey for consumption declined 5,390,000 gal. in April to 4,760,000 gal. in May. At this rate, total whiskey reserves at the end of 1936 might be as high...
...drought areas increases the immediate supply. No trade was more agog about the commodity boom last week than the butter market. Like eggs, butter has an annual cycle in prices and production. Production of both butter and eggs touches bottom in November and December, then rises to a spring peak, eggs in May, butter in June, when pastures are usually greenest. Consequently butter prices are generally lower in summer than in winter. But in the past eight weeks butter has gone up, not down, faster than at any time since the post-War inflation when butter sold wholesale...
...family, this soft-toned fretted instrument was admired by many a classical composer, is played privately by Violinist Fritz Kreisler, is the specialty of Spaniard Andres Segovia and interests most U. S. amateurs because it figures in hillbilly music. Guitar sales are now at an alltime U. S. peak, 500,000 a year. In an $8.000,000 business, exclusive of organs and pianos, in which banjos, guitars and mandolins account for $4.000,000 annual sales, peaks were 200,000 for banjos (now 15,000), 150.000 for mandolins (now 10,000), 1,000,000 for ukuleles...