Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Women Geographers on her 84th birthday was slim, birdlike Annie Smith Peck, who closed her mountain-climbing career two years ago by tramping up Mount Madison. It was to signalize the most famed of Miss Peck's exploits that the Peruvian Government in 1908 named the northern peak of Mount Huascaran Cumbre Ana Peck. Miss Peck scaled Cumbre Ana Peck on the sixth attempt but her Swiss guide lost his own mittens and one of hers because "the fool, he didn't put his foot on them...
...peak railroad year of 1926 Westinghouse Air Brake made $10,000,000. A Mellon (Richard K.) sits on the board but even the Mellons could not prevent the company from losing $600,000 last year. So far this year railroads have ordered about 13 times as many freight cars as they built or bought all last year, and Westinghouse is once more in the black. Last week it looked as if Westinghouse would stay in the black for at least a decade. The American Railway Association, as one of its last acts before it was formally absorbed by the bigger...
Published in August by Macmillan, New York, the work deals with the reign of Phillip the Prudent, under whom Spain reached its peak and began its decline, thus bringing to a close the history of the Empire at home and abroad from its beginning to its downfall under Phillip...
Procter & Gamble may be many years the junior of Colgate but its profits are bigger, more consistent. Its peak year, curiously, was 1931 when it rolled up a profit of $22,600,000. Even last year it made $14,000,000. Until last spring P. & G. was always headed by a descendant of one of the two Cincinnati founders, with the Procters generally in the ascendency. But Chairman William Cooper Procter died childless and the management is now in the hands of Richard Redwood Deupree, a conservative steeped in good Procter paternalism...
...Aviation (BEX) for low priced issues seem to hold distinct possibilities. We still like Southern Pacific (SX) among the rails, and oddly enough there ought to be two or three points in National Power and Light from around 8, in the utility section, which is now probably at the peak of its disrepute...