Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cataract of TV entertainment that floods the U.S., an increased proportion next year will stream from TV drama. At peak season, viewers will get, live and on film, up to 140 hours of drama a week. At peak hours, drama audiences will average an estimated 23 million viewers per play, and much more than that for touted scripts. By year's end, well over 1,000 live teledramas will have been shown. How staggering these facts are becomes plain on comparison with those of the Broadway theater: there are rarely more than 60 plays a season, most of them...
...generation most susceptible to murder and other forms of homicide in 1934 is still being killed at the peak national rate. In 1934 most white male victims of homicide were 25 to 34 years old, most females 20 to 24. After two decades the dangerous years have moved right along: men 45 to 54 and women 35 to 44 are most frequently done...
Black into Gold. In the electrical equipment field, General Electric's earnings set a new peak for the second quarter, going from $45,827,000 last year to $51,323,000 this year. Sylvania told the same happy tale, with its $2,840,364 earnings setting an alltime second-quarter high for the company and more than doubling its earnings of $1,401,298 during the period last year. The high level of consumer income and spending showed up in food-company earnings. Pepsi-Cola hit the brightest spot: six-month net shot...
First Sweater Girl. The critics compared Harrigan to Euripides. Plautus Shakespeare, Dickens and Ibsen. Hart was dubbed "a genius" and the "Irish Apollo." In one peak five-year span Harrigan and Hart played to 10,000 people a week, netted $200,000, and gave the New York stage its first sweater girl-she wore no corset...
...four years, did not let the land lie fallow. Instead, they put other crops into the ground. As a result, they may well produce the largest soybean crop on record, oats production will come close to setting a new high, and the sorghum crop may also reach a new peak...