Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Paradoxically, the mining slump has come at a time when U.S. industry is using zinc at a record rate (an estimated 1,100,000 tons this year) and lead consumption is only a shade below the 1950 peak of 1,200,000 tons. But U.S. mines have not benefited; low-priced imports, up sharply in the last few years, exceed U.S. production (see chart...
...market is loosening fast. Last week, after two months of steadily declining interest rates for its short-term borrowing, the Treasury sold $1.5 billion in 91-day bills at a rate of 1.39%, lowest in 2½ years. The new rate was not much more than half of the peak of 2.41% reached early in June...
With the war and the tension-filled peace that followed, student and faculty interest in world movements reached a peak never before equalled. These were the days when intellectuals began their flirtation with Socialism and Communism...
...partner of the Wall Street law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell, he worked into a practice that included half the governments of Europe. His part-time public service, which got under way at Versailles when he acted as a counsel to the World War I U.S. Peace Commission, reached its peak when he pushed through the World War II Japanese Peace Treaty almost singlehanded...
...Shrine of Lady Luck. Praeneste, often mentioned by the classical writers, was an ancient religious center 23 miles east of Rome in the Sabine hills. Sacred to the goddess Fortuna, it was the Roman world's bulkiest, solidest shrine. It throve for a thousand years, reaching its peak about the time of Christ, and was the last pagan center to be suppressed by Christianity. When Lady Luck was still lucky, her intricate complex of sacred buildings covered an area a dozen times bigger than St. Peter...