Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...motel boom shows little sign of slowing down. Around the U.S. last week, some 900 newer and bigger motels were either under construction or in the planning stage. Yet the motelman, eyeing peak auto output and rising tourism, sees nothing but a happy future for the smart operator. Says Seattle's Frank Seal, owner of a 55-room motel that he built in 1947 for $92,200 and now values at nearly $400,000: "It just isn't for sale. This is just too good a thing not to hold...
...gold. The eleventh of Hercules' twelve mythical labors-to fetch the golden apples of the Hesperides-suggests to him that the Greeks may have sailed into the Atlantic by 1400 B.C. The giant Atlas, who gave Hercules such a timely hand, may have been "the gigantic snow-capped Peak of Teneriffe on the Canary Islands," and the apples the hero plucked were perhaps the golden-yellow fruit of the Canary strawberry tree. Though Author Herrmann considers it only "possible" that America was reached even before Leif Ericson's 11th century voyage to Vinland, his stimulating and well-balanced...
...into American Legion politics. As a member of his local post, he went to Indianapolis for the state convention in 1946, and was picked by the Indiana Legion kingmakers, notably Indianapolis Publicity Man Elmer ("Little Doc") Sherwood, to be state vice commander. From that level Craig rocketed to the peak of Legion politics...
...auto sales keeping up with the record-breaking auto production? Last week the nation's dealers gave the answer: in the first eight weeks of 1955 they had pushed sales up to almost 1,000,000 cars, about 40% above last year and an alltime peak. Predicted Ford Economist George Hitchings: first-quarter sales will total 1,580,000 cars, 33% better than...
...demand came from the auto industry, which last week turned out 175,000 cars for its second record week in a row. General Motors' output of nearly 86,000 cars and Chrysler's 34,000 were the highest ever; Ford's 44,000 was a postwar peak. Throughout the auto industry, plants were working Saturdays and overtime to get the cars to market...