Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lockheed's sales totaled a record $820,467,000. up a startling 87% over the year before and 23% over the World War II peak. Profits were $15,462.000 ($5.79 a share). Lockheed trimmed its backlog slightly in 1953, from $1,608,669,000 to $1,408,808,000, nevertheless expects its 1954 sales to be only slightly below 1953. Lockheed stock was up from a 1952 low of 18⅜ to last week...
Grumman reported sales of $240,857,669, up $20 million over 1952 and topped only by the World War II peak years of 1943-44. Profit after taxes was $7,129,341 ($3.56 a share) and the year-end backlog was $273,758,000. Grumman common sold last week for 26¾, down from a 1952 high of 31⅜, but above...
...there ever was a peak to the House Plan it probably came in 1940. Under Adolph Samborski intramural athletics had graduated to an organized program from the informality insisted upon by masters in the opening years...
...Times-Herald was in deep trouble. Circulation slumped steadily and advertising dropped off. Furthermore, the colonel was having problems with the rich Trib, whose circulation has fallen 17.6% from its 1946 peak. Two months ago, Post Chairman Meyer, who had tried to buy the T-H before, heard that the colonel was fed up with the Times-Herald and dispatched an emissary to McCormick's winter home in Boynton Beach, Fla. to sound him out about selling the paper...
...same deftness of line and surprise of situation that both Huston and Bogart have become known for is in Beat the Devil. The secret, of course, lies in conceiving enough flamboyantly wicked characters to off-set Bogart's flashy heroism. In this case, Huston and Capote have hit a peak. From a tiny British Major who worships the memories of Mussolini and Hitler, to a German from Chile called O'Hara, the people of Beat the Devil are geniuses of evil and eccentricity...