Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chemicals. With sales up 28% to a new peak, Monsanto earned $26.4 million. 14% more than in 1952. Merck's sales stayed at the 1952 level of $160 million, while profits sagged to $11.4 million, down...
...Stevenson, the last seven years of expense, taxes, and casualties marked the peak of the power struggle. Democracy has shown, he stated, its ability to compete with totalitarianism where cooperation and persuasion must off-balance the enemy's coercion and command...
...railroad rails at 750 m.p.h. As an additional attraction, the passenger sits in a chair that tumbles over and over 180 times a minute. The rig is designed to simulate the air pressure and violent rotation encountered by a pilot who bails out of a fighter plane at the peak of its speed...
Ever since Black Thursday of 1929, the figure 300 has had a magic meaning for Wall Street. On that October day the Dow-Jones industrial average, which had hit a peak of 386.10 in September, crashed 40 points and dropped below 300. In more than 24 years since 1929, it never reached 300 again. By mid-1930 the average bounced back 100 points to 297.25, but then started its almost uninterrupted fall to the 1932 low of 40.56. Last year the Dow-Jones average again inched up to 295.06, but got no higher. But last week on Friday (March...
...Conquest of Everest" reveals the same careful planning that spelled success for the fourth major assault on the world's highest peak. The fill in shots which space out the more exciting, on-the-spot scenes in this feature-length presentation are well filmed and valuable in detailing the long, work that went into the ascent...