Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...season's first smash hit, The Boy Friend, saw its author locked out of rehearsals with a detective guarding the door. Silk Stockings was more spotlighted during its harassed tryout than are most hits at the peak of their run. Such so-so plays as Anastasia and Inherit the Wind packed enough second-act wallop to have the whole town talking. House of Flowers featured gorgeous rival bordellos, Lunatics and Lovers a bubble bath onstage...
...ouster: Edmund Krider, 42, an ex-accountant picked as $76,000-a-year president by Avery in 1952, who was considered to possess Avery's ruthlessness without either his charm or ability. The directors tackled Avery again, suggested that having won over Wolfson, he retire at his peak. Avery again refused, saying that the meeting proved he had a new mandate to continue...
Partial answers can be found by examining the effect of cutbacks made since the end of the Korean war. From the peak of the Korean buildup to the post-Korea low last fall, the annual rate of Defense Department military spending dropped from $46 billion to $32.8 billion; it is now running at a rate of $36 billion, and will probably drop to $34 billion in fiscal 1956. Yet despite the $13.2 billion drop...
...seemingly haphazard procedure outraged purists among infectious-disease experts, who insisted that every batch of vaccine should be rigorously retested, even if this meant delaying the entire inoculation program a month, with the consequence that in many states it could not be completed before the polio season's peak. But Dr. Scheele was more anxious to reassure than to alarm. Although there is no apparent difference between the vaccine ordered held up and the 5,000,000 or more shots already used. Surgeon General Scheele insisted that "the parents of children who have received [the] vaccine this spring...
Detroit last week gave the nation a graphic picture of just how fast the 1955 boom is accelerating: the three millionth passenger car rolled off the assembly lines. In the industry's previous peak year (1950) No. 3,000,000 was not turned out until late June. At this rate, said General Motors Chief Harlow Curtice, 1955 "could well be the biggest passenger-car year in the history of the automotive industry." GM reported that April was the best month, and 1955's first four months were the best for production and sales of new and used autos...