Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Workers is powerful enough to close hundreds of mills. Mr. Gorman had made his point and to continue the strike longer could not win him much more. In fact there were some indications that although the strike seemed to be gaining momentum in New England, it had passed its peak in the South. Protected by guardsmen and deputies, some mills in the Carolinas which had been forced to close by flying squadrons of strikers, began to reopen, their workers to return to work when promised protection...
...passengers whose opinions on gold, Hitler, husbands, Russian food, literature, Disarmament, legs, do not make news of a kind. But at no time during the year is such news so plentiful as during the first ten days of September. Then ocean travel to the U. S. reaches its peak. By last week the Manhattan, the lie de France, the Majestic, the Aqui tania, the Bremen, Enropa, many a lesser ship had landed some 15,000, most of whom were not averse to sharing their views with their stay-at-home countrymen...
...Denali" (Home of the Sun) is the Kuskokwim Indians' name for Alaska's 20,300-ft. Mt. McKinley, highest point in North America. Few miles distant is the summit of Mt. Foraker, 17,000 ft. high, whose two breastlike peaks the Kuskokwim call "Denali's Wife." "Denali" had been climbed to the top but "Denali's Wife" had not last July when Dr. T. Graham Brown of the University of South Wales & party set up their base camp on the Foraker River. From there the climbers struggled to the ice-clad summit of Mt. Foraker...
...Professor Guenther Oskar Dyhrenfurth of Zurich last week cabled Berlin that his party had made a successful ascent of 25,500-ft. Queen Mary Peak in the Himalayas. The message said that Professor Dyhrenfurth's wife Hettie accompanied the others to the top, surpassing the women's mountain climbing record (23,300 ft. up Pinnacle Peak in the Eastern Karakorum Range) established 18 years ago by the late Mrs. Fannie Bullock Workman of Worcester, Mass...
...gold mine which supplied young Errett Lobban Cord & friends with the fortune which, between speculative excitements, they have invested in airlines, shipbuilding, taxicabs. Entering the company when it was flat on its back in 1924, Motorman Cord lofted sales from $8,000,000 in 1925 to a peak of $37,000,000 in 1929. Early in the Depression he realized that there was still a market for a smart, fast model priced under $1,000 among people who had lost their shirts but did not want their neighbors to know it. Auburn became a Depression sensation, making 34,000 cars...