Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...calm. A full moon flooded the snow-capped Austrian spy peak. Thirty minutes before midnight Prince Caetani pulled the detonators. From where he stood the noise was slight. Skyward hurtled the white top of the mountain and what came down was black. With the greatest of ease Italian troops then occupied the smoking crater in which they found not even dead Austrians...
...Manhattan, Arnaud Cartwright Marts of Marts & Lundy, financial counsel lors to philanthropic institutions, detected an upturn in church giving. From a peak of $850,000,000 in 1929, contributions fell to $510,000,000 in 1932, to $410,000,000 in 1933. This year Counsellor Marts believes the South and West will show a 10% to 15% increase in giving. In the North and East the decline will halt. But mission boards and welfare agencies will experience the upturn more slowly than churches proper...
...street, Banker Reynolds has never been formally interviewed. He may have won his millions in the citadel of conservative Republicanism but he has never lost his standing as a good Democrat. To the nation's bankers Jackson Eli Reynolds is an awesome figure astride the highest peak in the mountain range of Morgan banks...
...season's peak, more than 1,000,000 spectators watch U. S. football games every Saturday. Last week's 15 most interesting games drew 450,000. In New York City four football crowds added up to 115,000. Biggest single bowlful of spectators (65,000) was at Pittsburgh...
Shrewd Yankee management has kept Scovill, with 300,000 items in its inventory, from missing a dividend in any year since 1855. It never duplicated its Wartime peak of $13,000,000 in profits when its enormous Waterbury plant was completely converted to munitions making but with ultra-conservative accounting it made $4,000,000 in 1929, about $1,000,000 last year...