Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation-wide increase in applications is due partly to a corresponding rise in the country's population, she said. "There seem to be more people of college age, and also a greater motivation to go to college. The peak year for applications will probably be 1960," she added...
...years ahead, even if the U.S. remains at peace. As the U.S.'s vast veteran population grows older, more veterans will suffer from chronic illnesses and require their country's care. Dr. Middleton can point to a historical example: U.S. outlay for Civil War veterans reached its peak in 1898, fully 33 years after Appomattox...
...bustling auto industry reached the highest production peak in its history last week. By working overtime, on Saturday and on extra shifts, automakers rolled out 168,160 passenger cars, a full 2,300 above the previous alltime record week ending June 24, 1950. Total for 1955's first six weeks: 959,080 passenger cars, 40% above the comparable period...
...peak in sight. Despite the upswing in uranium strikes (TIME. Jan. 31), AEC needs still more ore, estimates that most known deposits will be exhausted by 1962. Said Johnson: "A high rate of discovery will be required to maintain scheduled production levels." Although at least twelve ore deposits containing 100.000 or more tons each have been discovered since 1948 (v. three up to then), mining has climbed even faster. Seven years ago the U.S. had 15 small mines with a total of 50 employees; now it has more than 800 sizable mines with more than 4,000 employees...
Hutchinston and Schemheiter have set times of 2:12 and 2:17 respectively in the 220, but the varsity can top these if Jim Jogenson and Captain Ted Whatley duplicate their peak performances to date. And Jim Clarke may force a repeat of the Crimson's best sprinting effort if Chouteau Dyer, Gus Johnson, or Stu Ogden expect to beat him in-the 60-yard free style...