Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...news and editorial columns candidly admitted that no one said it with more bounce and bite. In the 41 years that he ran the Trib, the Colonel turned it into one of the most readable newspapers in the world, increased its circulation from 261,278 to a peak of 1,076,866, and made it the biggest moneymaker among U.S. newspapers...
...SALES in March hit the highest peak in history with 710,000 cars sold, topping the previous record of 683,995 set in August...
General Motors' President Harlow Curtice announced that it was G.M.'s best first quarter by a whopping 35% over the previous peak (set last year). In the first 20 days of March, even G.M.'s used-car sales hit a record high, 29.4% greater than ever before. Ford, working on "maximum overtime schedules," reported a postwar record week. Chrysler announced that it earned more in igss's first two months than it did in all of 1954 (when it netted $18,516,770). Chrysler output, which had dropped from 20% of the industry total...
...around. They were the highest in 17 months for machine tools, the highest in 15 months for heavy construction, and 16% above a year ago for furniture. Sales were also up. The nation's department-store sales outstripped the same 1954 week by 14%. Wages were at a peak; the average U.S. worker with three dependents took home $69.17 weekly, 55? more than ever before in history. In Wall Street the Dow-Jones industrial average, reacting to the news, recorded the second sharpest rise of the year, recovered more than 75% of its mid-March loss...
STRIKE TALK over the guaranteed annual wage in the auto industry is lessening. Autoworkers' Walter Reuther is not adamant on the union's guaranteed-wage plan, says he will listen to other proposals that might be "better or more practical." And with output at a peak, auto companies are anxious to work out some reasonable settlement...