Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Byers Peak Ranch (altitude: 8,600 ft.), Ike found that some changes had been made since his last visit. Near the rustic cabin where the President had roughed it in previous years, Host Nielsen had built a comfortable new prefabricated rambler with an ultramodern electric kitchen calculated to delight an old K.P. like Ike. St. Louis Creek had been deepened in spots for better fishing, and freshly stocked with trout, and a new, one-acre pond near the house was leaping with 412 hungry rainbow trout which Nielsen had thoughtfully dumped in a week before at a cost...
...Breathing Spell. Ideally, as business reaches peak production and employment, there is a leveling off period. With labor in increasingly short supply, businessmen must bid higher for more workers to make more goods; marginal costs increase; expansion becomes more difficult; prices tend to go up, thus gradually lessening demand. At first, the forecast was for such a breathing spell starting last month...
Gentle Braking. With peak production and annual personal income at a record $301.1 billion in June, few economists are seriously worried about the overall health of the U.S. economy. But no one wants to take chances. Instead of waiting, and risking a sharp decline later, the FRB and the Administration economists would much rather apply the brakes now, and do it gently. For one thing, the Government remembers all too well the way businessmen ran for cover in 1953 when the Treasury, with its 3 ¼% 30-year bonds, sharply contracted the money supply. For another, the move keeps...
...thing certain about each year's polio epidemic is its uncertainty. The disease may spread with a rush early in the summer, reach a peak by mid-August (as in 1953's severe season) and then recede. Or it may come from behind and keep racing ahead into late September-as happened in 1952, one of the two worst polio years in U.S. history. Then, too, the disease usually plays hopscotch across the map. One year it will be most prevalent in the northern Midwest, only to hit the Northeast or the Pacific Coast with special force...
General Motors ran up a second-quarter profit of $351,555,080 v. $236,083,050 for the same period a year ago, and a half-year net of $661 million v. $425 million last year, despite a 25% decline in defense sales. Jersey Standard's peak $344 million for the half year topped 1954's six months' profit, $293 million...