Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Harry Conway ("Bud") Fisher, 69, creator of the comic strip Mutt and Jeff; of cancer; in Manhattan. Starting in 1907 with a sports-page cartoon about a chinless horse-race tipster named Augustus Mutt, Fisher added runty, harebrained Jeff four months later, made a merry fortune (at his peak in the '20s he earned $300,000 a year) whirling them around on a ceaseless merry-go-round of fights, skulduggeries and amiable confusion...
...cautious U.S. Public Health Service allowed itself a well-qualified prediction: the 1954 polio season should decline in severity from now on, as it apparently reached an early peak at the end of August. The last three weeks for which full U.S. figures were available showed 2,206 cases, then 2,210 and a drop to 2,105. Total cases for the calendar year so far: 19,215, as against...
Power Pattern. To both sides it made such good sense that they agreed to interconnect the systems at 19 different points. Each would help the other at periods of peak loads, thus lessening breakdowns and power shortages. The cooperatives would abandon plans for 292 miles of lines, use the $3,000,000 saved to increase capacity of the new plant at Ford. With peace in sight, the Government released the remaining $13,299,000 of its loan to the cooperatives so that they could further expand the Ford plant and complete their transmission system...
...little snow climbing; two of the other three had no experience at all. University of Washington Medical Student Richard Neal Jr., 24, made the trek in smooth-soled shoes. Even so, all four of the amateur alpinists managed to claw their way to the icy summit of Middle Peak, second highest of the mountain's three...
...Unemployment benefit rolls were almost 500,000 below the 2,213,000 reported in February, the year's peak figure. The Commerce Department reported that average manufacturing-plant working hours were lengthening and that payrolls were no longer declining...