Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Until he reached middle age, he persisted in his favorite sport of mountain climbing. Then one day, as he was descending a dangerous peak, his rope jammed, and he went plunging downward to dangle helplessly over a deep chasm. "For 20 minutes I could not move," Alcide de Gasped recalled later. "Then I swung over to a ridge and was safe. Well, I was 54 then, and I decided I had better give up climbing. But looking back, it had been a good school for political fighting...
...figures last week, trying to decide how bad the 1954 polio epidemic would be. Polio strikes are so variable (not only from year to year, but between regions of the U.S. and even between adjoining states) that the experts could see no overall trend, and the year's peak for the disease outbreaks may still be ahead. This much was certain: in 1954 the reported cases have totaled 12,699-7% less than the comparable period last year, but 4% more than the period's average for the last five years...
...lower than the first-half average and 30% below the 1953 July level. But while steel lagged, the economy as a whole was still racing along at a near-record level. In Washington, the Federal Reserve Board announced that its overall index of industrial production, while off from its peak, was still at 124% of the 1947-49 average, about where it was six months ago (see chart). Reported the Commerce Department: total output of goods and services rose in the second quarter to an annual rate of $356 billion, only 4% behind record-smashing...
...ending and whether the Southern Democracy is about to join the Northern on the left side of the American political scene. The overwhelming majority of Democrats occupied that area in the first stages of the New Deal. But as its radicalism in creased, a movement which reached its peak under President Truman and the Fair Deal, many Southerners returned to the more moderate political philosophy of the Wilson Administration. The recent primaries in North Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee and Arkansas gave superficial evidence, at least, that the immunity of the Southern conservatives may soon be a thing of the past...
...When death, as it must to all little mags, came to London's highbrow monthly Horizon in December 1949, the magazine had beaten the actuarial tables and reached the advanced old age of ten years. Since there was always more red ink than red blood in its circulation (peak figure: 10,-ooo), Horizon owed much of its vitality to two men: 1) Angel Peter Watson, the millionaire son of a milkman, who blotted up some $20,000 in losses; and 2) Editor Cyril Connolly, the intellectual son of an army officer, whose pudgy face once reminded a reporter...