Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trains to Florida. Eastern Air Transport was carrying twice as many passengers south as in 1933. In two weeks 63,000 passenger automobiles from other states poured into Miami. One day last week while blizzards were freezing the North 75,000 people baked on Miami Beach, three times the peak number reported in 1926. There, too, 45,000 visitors filled all available accommodations. In Tampa Barren Collier's hotels, Floridan and Tampa Terrace, were 85% full, reopened their main dining rooms closed all last year. Visitors were warned not to go to Palm Beach and Miami unless they...
...reach of Federal Reserve control. Call loans are payable on demand, are secured largely by active listed stocks, are practically riskless. During 1929 the interest rate on call loans ranged between 5% and 20%. No good corporation treasurer could overlook that opportunity to use his idle funds. But the peak of all loans to all members of the New York Stock Exchange was $8,500,000,000-just one-half the figure which Inquisitor Pecora said was advanced by one company alone. By his calculations Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey had loaned $17,000,000,000. What Inquisitor Pecora...
Strangely enough, Tilden does not believe that a man must be at the peak of condition to get the best results. In fact, in his own case the records of his matches show that he has played better when he was not feeling well. As he explains it, he concentrates much better when he is not in the best of health, because he is attempting to finish the match as soon as possible...
...think it is fair to say," Roberts said, "that the material we removed from the graves showed an artistic ability to create designs, carve bone, and work metal that reached the peak of the achievement of primitive American peoples. These people were living at the time of the Spanish invasions and were probably killed when the Spaniards murdered nearly 2,000,000 Panamanians in their search for gold...
...heaping teaspoonful of salt. Donka Morescu, who had been a star of the silent cinema, was just staging a last comeback. Her beauty was at its fullest bloom, her ambition straining at the traces. Donka was happy. Her lover was Oliver Dent, Hollywood's greatest star, at the peak of his career. Until their work separated them their affair was as smooth as celluloid. While Oliver tried to rest before his next picture, Donka slaved, had little time or inclination for him at the end of her crowded day. But she found time to save an old pal from...