Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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April 2, 1951 (Democratic Administration): "Never in U.S. history had the cost of living been so high. The consumer's price index his a new peak...
...party at the airport (they have no children of their own). In Great Bend, Kans., when tornadoes pirouetted around the town, says Mrs. Gill, "we didn't have enough sense to be scared." They helped roll cigars in Tampa. To celebrate the Fourth of July, they climbed a peak in Rocky Mountain National Park. At the top they watched the lightning strike a forest below, while they chatted with the ranger and his wife. In Cripple Creek, after sampling "the best apple pie in the U.S.," they danced until...
WEST GERMAN BOOM is still growing. Production index for September jumped to 215 (1936 index: 100), or eight points higher than the previous peak in August, and 14.4% better than September...
...moral seems to be that the couch cannot call the calipers black. In phrenological terms, the Bump of Causality remains as unobtrusive as a pitcher's mound in Death Valley, while the Bump of Self-Esteem looms over it like Pike's Peak...
...travel increase has also meant peak profits ($4,685,000 last year) for 105-year-old American Express as well. In the past decade the company expanded more than it did in its previous 95 years-growing from 50 offices to 343 in 36 countries. This year alone, American Express has opened or enlarged twelve branches, from Istanbul to Honolulu to Houston...