Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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History I, annually the largest noncompulsory course in the college, again declined in the number of enrolled students with 523 this year as compared with 571 last last year and the peak...
...Woody Herman, famous leader-clarinetist of "The Band That Plays the Blues", will be at the Minute Man Record Shop on Boylston Street next Wednesday from three to four. Besides having brought his band from mere local fame to a national peak in the space of one year, Woody is a brilliant musician and really knows whereof he speaks. Drop around and get him to tell you why he thinks all good jazz should be built on the blues--it's worth hearing...
...save newsprint. Many a U. S. publisher, watching his circulation figures soar as fat editions pushed each other off his presses, wondered if presently he too might not feel a paper shortage, followed by rising prices. In World War I newsprint went from $40 a ton to a 1920 peak...
...machine tool industry-which makes the machines with which other industries make goods-is no monster economic unit. In a peak year it may gross $200,000,000, about as much as the automobile industry (cars and trucks) grosses in an average month. But it is a key unit -when other industries stagnate it stagnates, when others expand it is busy. For ten years the machine tool industry has lived mainly on orders from 1) the automobile industry; 2) foreign buyers (British, Japanese, German) who wanted to make goods at home instead of buying from the U. S.; 3) more...
...Chicago's steel mills 1,000 more men were employed last week, employment reached 80,000, already within 2,000 of the post-depression (1937) peak...