Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lawrence power project, when completed in 1959, "will generate more power than TVA." The 12.6 billion kilowatt-hours per year estimated for the St. Lawrence project compares with over 16.5 billion kilowatt-hours of electric power produced by TVA hydro plants in fiscal year 1950, TVA's peak year of hydro generation...
...plentiful mortgage money, plenty of money in the bank (savings last month hit a new high of $25.5 billion), and that vital factor that no economist can assess, the willingness to buy. In the first half of 1954, said the Commerce Department, spending for personal consumption hit a new peak annual rate of $233 billion. The outlook for the rest of the construction industry also seemed bright. The Associated General Contractors of America polled its members (80% of the industry) and noted that building outlays of all types this year should hit $36.5 billion, up $17 billion from...
...feel that Brower's dropping of his upper level courses this year in order to take on an elementary Humanities course and the myriad duties of a Housemaster is a great loss to the English department and the College. They think it rather strange that a man at the peak of his teaching career should choose this path...
Many another business took an optimistic view. The American Retail Federation reported to President Eisenhower that it expected this year to set a new record for retail sales, surpassing the previous peak last year. In Detroit, where auto production is tapering off for model changeovers, Chrysler Corp. estimated that it would have 84,400 workers on the payroll in the Detroit area by mid-November, up 30,300 from last month, when 1954 model output stopped, and just 3,600 under the year's high of last January. The Department of Commerce reported that industrial production bounced back...
BANNER IN THE SKY by Jomes Ramsey Ullman (252 pp.; Lippincott; $2.75) tells how boy loves mountain, boy conquers mountain. Rudi Matt, 16, dreams of climbing the local peak known as the Citadel. Papa, who was a great Swiss guide, tried it and perished, so Mamma wants to keep her son grounded, but the boy has alpenstocks in his blood. By the bottom of the first page, he has played hooky from his dishwashing job and is off clambering from rock to rock. Seventeen pages later, he has rescued the famous English climber, Captain Winter, and even Rudi...