Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...magazine on its way down. In the hotly competitive race for the farm market, Curtis' venerable (102-year-old) Country Gentleman has been stumbling. "The magazine," says one competitor, "has become a sort of a Mother Hubbard, covering everything and touching nothing.'' Since its peak war years, Country Gentleman has been gradually losing advertising. Curtis started to try to bail out the sick monthly last year by changing its name to Better Farming, but the transformation had barely started when along came the offer from Farm Journal...
...Britain's Dr. Charles Evans (a veteran of the Hunt-Hillary climb) remembered their manners and halted a few feet from the summit (28,146 ft.) of Mt. Kanchenjunga to avoid offending local gods. Even so, they earned credit for conquering the world's third highest peak (after Everest, 29,028 ft., and Godwin Austen or K2, 28,250 ft.), the highest mountain until then unclimbed...
This year Maine potato prices rose in April as a result of a damaging frost in the southern potato fields, hit a peak of $5.15 per 100 lbs. CEA suspects that speculators then sold short heavily in Maine futures, counting on a sharp price drop later on, which would enable them to deliver their contracts at a heavy profit. Furthermore, the traders had counted on delivering minimum-size 2-in. potatoes in the standard 100-1b. bags used by the exchange. But this year Maine's farmers got the Agriculture Department to allow only 2¼-in. potatoes...
London's stockmarket soared to an all-time peak last week. For the first time in history, the industrial index of the Financial Times broke through 200, climbed a record 5.8 points to a new peak of 204.4 before it eased off. In one day, market-leading Imperial Chemical Industries rose 1½? to $7.70, Courtaulds climbed 45½? to $6.30. Steels, machine tools, electrical equipment companies all headed upward. Not only were Britons busily buying, but Americans also gave the market a boost as they snapped up stocks. On the American Stock Exchange, I.C.I...
...plug their wares in the nation's newspapers, U.S. businessmen spent $594 million in 1954, 1.2% below 1953's peak of $601 million, but still the second-best year on record. As usual, the American Newspaper Publishers Association reported this week, the auto industry (which accounts for 24% of the ads) spent most with a 7.9% increase to a record $139 million, while food dipped 2.8% to come in second with $129 million. The biggest single U.S. advertiser for the eighth straight year: General Motors, whose ad outlay jumped 13.5% to an alltime high of $37.3 million...