Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Frederiksen believes that warmth and cold in the Arctic come in cycles of about 1,800 years. Before the last peak of cold, from which the Arctic is just emerging, Greenland was really green, and the sea between Greenland and Iceland was sufficiently free of ice to permit the tiny ships of the Vikings to sail without disaster. Dr. Frederiksen predicts that this condition will return, and that great areas of Siberia, Canada and Alaska, now almost uninhabitable, will be opened to agriculture. Population will move north, and the world's balance of power may be affected...
...Freeman, fortnightly opinion journal of the far right, has been going downhill ever since its founders fell out more than a year ago (TIME, Jan. 26, 1953). After hitting a peak of almost 22,000, circulation slipped, and a few weeks ago the Freeman was about ready to fold. Last week it had some fresh help. It was taken over by the Foundation for Economic Education, a nonprofit organization, which has turned it into a monthly. The magazine also had a new editor: Frank Chodorov, 67, director from 1936 to 1941 of the Henry George School of Social Science...
...Department of Commerce reported that new construction in June rose to $3.3 billion, with both private and public building at peak levels. This brought the total for the first six months to a record $16.6 billion, more than $300 million above 1953's previous alltime high...
...Payoff. With the B-47 and B-5 and its KC-97 program, Boeing is in the best shape ever. This year, sales will reach the $1 billion mark, and profits will probably hit $31 million, 48% more than the peak war years. This spring Boeing's 14,419 stockholders got the added dividend of a two-for-one stock split...
...tickling accounts of Paul pounding the piano for silent movies, playing shortstop against "The Boston Bloomer Girls," and tousling with an unfriendly Chinese ("I learned for the first time how strong and difficult a small Chinese can be, when apprehensive"). The book climbs to its ribald and humorous peak with a description of the night the brothel burned down in Ashton, Idaho, and "the quick thinkers routed out those who chanced to be relaxing in the bedrooms ..." Happily, sporting life a la Paul never gets quite so outrageous that it cannot be thoroughly enjoyed by hammock-readers of either...