Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some 900 cases of infantile paralysis have been reported in Los Angeles County during the past two months. Only seven deaths occurred during the epidemic which, county authorities believe, has passed its peak. In Hollywood cinema folk closed their private swimming pools when Actress Ida Lupino, and Cameraman Hal Rosson, estranged husband of Jean Harlow, contracted mild cases of the disease...
When the Democrats brought the census bill into the House, it was argued that Jan. 1 was a bad time for the count. Then on farms and in factories unemployment would be at its peak. Therefore the Democratic majority adroitly changed the starting date to Monday, Nov. 12-six days after the Congressional election. Under the terms of the bill the party in power could hire 105.000 men-250 to each Congressional district-and pay them $4 a day for two weeks to take the count. Nothing w?as to prevent the census-takers from being told by Democrats...
...Navy fighters. On roads and mountain byways roamed grey-clad State troopers. All that day and night and all next morning they hunted high & low in the rough Catskill Mountain country. At noon on the second day Pilots William H. Hallock and Lee Lewis flew low over a wooded peak at Mongaup Park, known locally as "Last Chance Hill," spotted the burned wreckage of NC 12354, the incinerated remains of Pilot Holbrook. Copilot Barron, Stewardess Huckeby & all four passengers. Airline officials deduced that Pilot Holbrook had turned westward to skirt a storm area. Squeezed down by the thick blanket...
Express forces in college towns have a unique problem in the peak load occurring in June and September. The Railway Express Agency, attacks the problem with the wisdom of experience. The arrangement this year with dormitory representatives assures a smooth and unruffled handling of student baggage...
...giving Loughlin support Franny Gleason deserves the biggest boost. All year Gleason has been amazing the fans by his miraculous running catches out in left field. On Saturday he reached his peak by grabbing a tons fly just as it came shifting through the branches of a tree that obstructed the far side of the pasture. Then, too, Hraman Gibbs had to take a nose dive under the score