Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Western standards, China has never been a railroad nation. Its peak total mileage never exceeded 16,700-against the U.S.'s 395,800. Its railroads, built mostly by the British and Japanese, serviced the coastal provinces and industrial Manchuria, and one-third of these lines were knocked out during the war with the Communists. Last week, from TIME'S bureau in Hong Kong, a city where the free world gets its best peek through the slits in the bamboo curtain, came the most detailed word yet of what the Reds have done and hope to do about...
...Horace Ashenfelter, put their minds on a matter which had long concerned them: Ashen-felter's chances of breaking Wilt's world indoor record. Wilt, now 33 and a little past his prime, set the record (8:50.7) two years ago. Ashenfelter, 31 and about at his peak, set the Olympic 3,000-meter (almost two miles) steeplechase record two years...
Overall, the Federal Reserve Board announced that industrial production had a "slight further decline" in January, after dipping in December to a level about 7% under last summer's record peak. Truckmakers were scheduling a cut of 10% to 15% in first-quarter production, and Chevrolet was trimming back its output slightly. Nash announced price cuts in its cars ranging from $20 to $210, the larger cuts resulting mostly from eliminating radios, heaters, etc. But in Atlanta, where 750 of the 1,370 employees at a Chevrolet plant were put on a four-day week, Cadillac buyers were told...
STEAK prices will go higher this year, meatmen predict, because drought and high feed prices caused many ranchers to reduce herds last year. Beef prices should hit a peak about 5% below last year's high by late July or August, remain there through next winter...
...categories of "approach" angles for promotion campaigns: 1) Clinch ("As basic as Adam and Eve") ; 2) See (SEE THE WILD ANIMALS STAMPEDE. SEE THE MARTYRS THROWN TO THE STARVING LIONS); 3) Sincere ("A dignified, editorial type of ad . . . THIS THEATER is PROUD TO ANNOUNCE . . ."); 4) Pike's Peak or Bust ("Jean Harlow kicked off the new trend . . ."); 5) How Much Is That Girlie 'Gainst the Lamppost? ("Such an illustration tells, without words, that the lady is shady"); 6) Musical Comedy ("Must be illustrated with a smiling, toothy twosome and be liberally peppered with prancing chorus girls...