Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boys" were Explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. And Brad Smith had been assigned by TIME to retrace their journey, photographing each landmark just as they first saw it, at the same time of year and the same time of day, from the same vantage point of mountain peak or river bed that they had described in their journals...
After four days in the semi-rough of Byers Peak Ranch, 8,750 ft. in the high Rockies, the President of the U.S. looked ruddy and fit. It had been a pleasant vacation-within-a-vacation: Ike had taken it easy, fishing in the chilly water of St. Louis Creek, dabbling at his painting, and demonstrating his prowess as a mess sergeant by preparing all the meals for the stag party. He put the camp on a two-big-meals-and-no-lunch regimen. His menus were hearty: a breakfast of fried cornmeal mush with chicken-giblet gravy and sausages...
...farm income is down to $11 billion, a drop of 30% from the Korean war peak of $15.8 billion and the lowest level since 1942. The Democrats blamed the Administration's system of flexible price supports, wanted a return to rigid supports; the Republicans snapped back that it was rigid supports that had saddled them with the farm problem in the first place, that the flexible program had not yet begun to take effect. But for many nonfarmers, the big question...
...gain of almost 300%; at the same time, non-farm incomes climbed only 175% to $1,735. And farmers have managed to hang on to most of the gain. Historically, farm prices have plummeted at least 50% after a war; in the years since the Korea peak, the drop has been only 21%. Furthermore, because so many millions have left the farms, the slump has brought only a 5% drop in per capita income. Farmers who remain have bigger farms, run them more efficiently and are earning enough money to expand still more...
...wage increase. In January, the pen and pencil industry's seasonal low point, the workers failed to earn a bonus, but it was the only month they missed (payments from the reserve pool are made only at year's end). They earned a peak 27.1% over their wages in September...