Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...APPALLED, AMAZED, ASTOUNDED AND SICKENED BY YOUR ILL-BASED, ILL-CONCEIVED, ILL-DESIGNED AND FANTASTICALLY INCORRECT PIECE ON "PAY-AS-YOU-SEE TV" [TIME, Feb 1] . . . THIS IS EITHER A HIGH MARK OF STUPIDITY OR AN UNBELIEVABLE PEAK IN PUBLIC IGNORANCE . . . OVER 2,000 RADIO STATIONS IN THIS COUNTRY HAVE BEEN BORN, NURSED, AND FINANCIALLY MATURED IN SPITE OF YOUR NONSENSICAL IMPLICATION THAT ADVERTISING COMMERCIALS ARE DISAPPROVED . . . PAY-AS-YOU-SEE TV IS THE MOST IDIOTIC, IMPRACTICAL AND ABSURD IDEA FOSTERED IN THE FIELD OF PUBLIC MEDIA . . . NEXT TO RADIO, TV IS THE MOST ECONOMICAL AND EFFICIENT ADVERTISING MEDIUM CREATED...
Cheered by such reports, the stock market went right on climbing. The Dow-Jones industrials average tacked on another 2.74 points to reach 292.39, within a whisker of the peak reached at the start of 1953. Some saucerites felt that the ride up the far slope of the saucer had already begun...
...addition to a T-bar lift and a whole slew of rope tows, providing many excellent trails for novice to expert. Nearby, Mad River Glen, With its mile long lift, sports a mountain almost as big as Stowe's, but with waiting lines much shorter. Big Bromley and Pico Peak always have snow and good skiing...
...upsets over Princeton, Brandeis, and Yale in the Crimson's last three games will hardly be necessary to beat the Jeffs; the visitors were walloped by the varsity, 69 to 49, in the opening round of the Crimson tourney at Dartmouth, and that was long before Harvard reached its peak...
...actual spending proposed in the 1955 budget will be from obligational authority granted in earlier years). The President asked for $56.3 billion of such authority, $4.4 billion less than the current year, $23.9 billion less than 1953's total and $35.1 billion below the Korean war peak in fiscal...