Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government will act like a magnificent sun which illuminates everything and burns no one." promised Julio Lozano, who last week-reluctantly-became the strongman of Honduras. Such rounded oratorical periods came as a surprise from Lozano, a onetime bookkeeper; only a month before, at what seemed the peak of an undramatic 25-year career in politics, he had been simply his country's able Vice President, serving out the last weeks of his term. Then ailing President Juan...
...June 21) and by competition from TV; readers have moved out of the city, and even though they still commute to work in Manhattan, many have fallen into the bad habit of reading suburban papers. As a result, New York dailies have dropped 9% from the 1947 total circulation peak, although national newspaper circulation is at an alltime high of 54.5 million...
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...peak of the Christmas-tree rush last week, the Halvorsons were shipping 20 carloads a day from their processing plant in Duluth. This year, they will sell a record 1,250,000 trees in the U.S and in almost every foreign country. Expected gross: more than $1,000,000 on their booming tree business and new additions to their line; a gift box including tree and miniature ornaments ($6.85), miniature electric-light strings with bulbs about twice the size of kitchen match heads...
Also, the extended spring vacation--a delightful time for intellectual relaxation--bears heavily on oarsmen and runers who are nearing peak-condition for the season's opening. The unusually long three weeks period means that coaches must lay off their squads for a week or more, while their squads for a week or more, while other teams are practicing. This is a serious loss which puts Yale behind the eightball even before the season opens...