Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Colorado Springs' thriving water department (also city-operated) it has paid $610,000 for use of water gathered from the sides of Pikes Peak, which turns the wheels of the hydro plants on the way down to the settling basins...
Uncle Don makes some $20,000 a year, at his peak (1928-29) made $75,000. But he would part with plenty to be rid of the persistent but apocryphal tale that one day, when he mistakenly thought he was off the air after a particularly luscious cluster of cliches and commercials, he sighed and said: "There! I guess that'll hold the little bastards...
...cheeked, sea-trading folk of one of the quaintest old towns in Europe last week dropped their placid and peculiar tasks-such as adding tiny flakes of pure gold leaf to the sparkling, sweet liqueur they sell as Danziger Goldwasser-to come tumbling down the high stoops of their peak-gabled houses for a bucolic joy spree over Adolf Hitler...
Night. A railway station at Cernauti, Rumania, onetime outpost of German culture in the East, now a hurtling trade centre at the base of the Carpathian Mountains. Rolling hills in the background, overshadowed by the black mass of a 3,000-ft. peak; the Prut River flowing nearby. Enter Colonel Josef Beck, Foreign Minister of Poland. No longer the same man as in Act I and II, the Colonel is haggard, sleepless; the sardonic elegance that marked his appearance has vanished. With him is Marshal Smigly-Rydz, Commander in Chief of the Polish Armies, equally haggard, desperate...
...beat Europe and the next fellow to their suppliers' order books. Last week many an industry had sold its entire production for months to come. If volume of orders and anxiety of customers for delivery were the only things that mattered, production should already have passed the 1937 peak, possibly the 1929 peak, but it had not. Production cannot be turned on and off like a light switch...