Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...produced $43 billion in military goods in 1953-about one-half the dollar value of the peak World War II military production. Chief item: 12,000 military planes, of which hundreds were MIG-killing Sabre jets of "Dutch" Kindelberger's North American Aviation, Inc. But the economy was not strained by its huge defense load. The National Planning Association estimated that the U.S. could turn out almost twice as much in arms and still keep the standard of living rising...
...dynamic force of the U.S. economy was reflected by the Federal Reserve Board's revised index of industrial production (in which the base years are 1947-49 instead of 1935-39). The new index averaged 135, up 9% from 1952 for a new peak and eight full points above the biggest year of World War II. While taxes cut deep, corporations nevertheless netted more after taxes ($20.5 billion) than in any year except 1948 and 1950, and paid out the greatest volume of dividends in history ($9.5 billion...
...sets. With the matches even at one apiece, Captain Talbert, a diabetic 35-year-old not even ranked in the U.S.'s first ten, made a bold decision. He withdrew Seixas from the doubles match and substituted himself. Teamed with Trabert, Billy Talbert, a formful stylist at his peak, bounded all over the court to help the U.S. win the vital doubles point. Next day, Seixas made a belated comeback, and the U.S. finally beat Belgium, 4-1. Four to one, as it happened, became the exact odds the Aussie bookmakers were now quoting against the Americans...
Everest, therefore, wears through almost a third of its 71 minutes before the expedition is safely stowed in its base camp at 18,000 ft. in the western cwm (a Welsh word that rhymes with doom), the colossal glacial ditch by which access to the peak is possible. From there to the summit is a lung-bursting matter of 46 days, with the camera dogging along for all but the last few thousand feet of the way. It sees some awesome things-avalanches down the vast chute of the cwm, in which ice blocks the size of a ten-story...
...summit ridge. The excitement rises; the onlooker, tensed like the climbers for so long against so many obstacles, pushes forward out of his seat to be with the first assault team, Bourdillon and Evans, as they slog out for the south summit at least, and, God willing, the peak...