Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Westward from the man on the hospital terrace swept the Rockies, flecked with the gold of the cottonwoods and aspens, beneath cloudless autumn skies. To the northwest stood Longs Peak, 14,255 ft., and to the southwest Pikes Peak, 14,110 ft., their shoulders cloaked with snow; on the way out to the horizon, amid intervening tiers and hollows, lay places like Clear Creek, where Colorado's first important gold strike was made in 1859. ("Panned out eight treaty cups of dirt," the prospector said, "and found nothing but fine colors...
From the observatory perched on nearby Sacramento Peak, Dr. Edward Manring of the Air Force Cambridge Research Center followed the sodium cloud all night. The light affected sensitive instruments so strongly that it drove them off-scale. It will be at least a month before Air Force scientists can analyze their data and decide what the experiment has taught them. If the results are promising, many other sodium rockets may be shot into...
...steel, 1955 is likely to be a record year, with steelmen predicting 115 million tons, some 3,500,000 tons above the previous 1953 peak. Reported Republic Steel: a nine-month profit of $63 million on sales of $872 million, with enough orders on hand to keep production rolling at capacity through the first half...
Until almost the peak of the Italian Renaissance, German painters remained absorbed in refining their own massive, strong-lined Gothic style. The first great German artist to cross the Italian Alps was Albrecht Dürer, who returned with his eyes aglow. Back home in Niirnberg, young Dürer began turning out drawings and prints that combined the high skills of medieval German craftsmanship with the new techniques and ideas he had discovered in Venice. The result was the opening of the Northern Renaissance. Dürer's prints and drawings became sought-after collectors' items...
Burns cited other elements of strength: "Although the nation's business is significantly larger than at the peak of 1953, inventory holdings are smaller. Despite the extensive [housing] boom, vacancies now available fall short of the reserve that people need...