Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cheaper and easier to buy ready-made dresses. For the first time in history pattern sales did not go up during the Depression as they had done in every previous business collapse. Though Butterick is still one of the big four pattern makers,* its sales sloped off from a peak of $16,000,000 in 1921 to $6,000,000 in 1933. To add to Butterick's troubles, Delineator advertising began dropping late in 1930. Its circulation is now 1,700,000 against more than 2,400,000 in 1931. Last January hard-pressed Butterick, invoking Section...
...Miguel returned to New Mexico, armed warfare had broken out between the Santa Fe and the Denver & Rio Grande Railroads, fighting for the Chicken Creek Route in strategic Raton Pass. Still quarreling with his father's partner, Miguel left the company, visited Denver, saw Leadville at the peak of its boom, became a member of the Chaffee Light Artillery of Colorado and served during the railroad strike of 1879, when the strikers took the roundhouse at Pueblo. Then he settled down, aged 20, to a quiet life in Las Vegas, where there were 29 killings in one month...
...after the early editions carrying the announcement hit the street. For Puritan bacon sold by competitors at 18? per Ib. Safeway was offering 34? for 3-lb. Crisco tins, 54? against the cut-rater's 29?; for National Brand butter 29? against 13?. The rush lofted to a peak the first day, then dwindled rapidly until, within three days, the volume of incoming merchandise amounted to only a handful of items. Reason: cut-raters had been forced to drop "loss leaders" entirely soon after the rush started as a matter of profit protection...
...dead were estimates of at least 30,000 more buried in the ruins of a hundred villages and towns from Kalat to Mastung. Survivors at Quetta watched with weary awe last week as another earthquake split a mountain in the distance and made a depression where the peak had been...
With last week's purchase, the Gannett chain numbered 19 newspapers, its peak to date. This made it numerically the third largest group in the land, outranked only by Hearst's 27 dailies, Scripps-Howard's 24.* Practically all in the group are established, prosperous properties, with an average age of 75 years. Last year Gannett Co. earned $1,011,000, more than in any year since the 1929 top of $1,237,000. Gannett preferred stock, offered to the public four years ago at $100 a share, hit a low of $58 in 1933, was quoted...