Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thinking Boy's Filter. This week, plump with ads and solid with facts, the four regional editions of the Farm Journal dropped heavily into country mailboxes across the land. "Hold wool for higher prices," it briskly warned. "Finish selling wheat. Prices are at their peak." As always, the features were gingham-crisp; "New Pay-Offs with Plastic Mulch," "How to Sell Bulls for 30% More," and "Need Bees? Make a Bed for 'Em." The farmer's wife got a new recipe for Danish raspberry pie, and the farmer's daughter learned that if she had light...
Corporate profits in the first quarter of 1959 rose to $47 billion, an alltime peak. So Government statisticians estimated last week, as glowing first-quarter earnings continued to come...
Famous or Notorious. By 1909 Wright was 40, and at the peak of his career. His Larkin Building in Buffalo had pioneered air conditioning, introduced the first metal-bound plate-glass doors, the first all-steel office furniture; with Unity Church in Oak Park, he had invented a whole vocabulary of cubist forms to express a new building material, poured concrete. Publication of his works in Europe created a sensation...
...Ayer expects to sell his new purchases to charter and cargo lines, will keep some planes himself and lease them to carriers for peak seasonal loads. For corporations, he will do a Convair over completely (bar, hifi, etc.), raise its fuel capacity to give it 50% greater range, put it in anyone's hangar for $385,000. Abroad, he is counting heavily on regional lines that cannot yet afford jets, but need better planes than they now have...
...seven feet tall and can break a man's jaw with a swipe of his fist, he never gets any back talk. Others may want to leave Belele for a more civilized post, but not de Goltz. Half Dutch, half native, he knows that he has reached his peak, and glories in the power to flog, execute, ride herd on his three young white assistants, who fear him. When a new civil-affairs officer named Major Bluphocks arrives, the stage is set for a vicious contest of wills. He has never been up against a man like de Goltz...