Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cost of living went up again in August, reaching the highest peak yet. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported last week that its index (1947-49 = 100) increased from 114.7 in mid-July to 115 in mid-August, with meat, rent and increased New York City subway fares accounting for much of the rise (fresh vegetables, home furnishings and women's clothing declined a bit). In news accounts of the B.L.S. report, such headline phrases as "new high" tended to obscure the fact that over the past year the retail price level has changed very little: in August...
...Hofstra College of 1,000 high school students in Nassau County, N.Y. (pop. 672,765) showed that 90% of the students over 16 drink alcoholic beverages. But most are "temperate" drinkers; only 2% to 5% fitted the tag of "heavy drinkers." Interesting statistic: drinking among high-schoolers reaches its peak at 16, falls off sharply...
Stained-glass design has been on the decline for seven centuries, ever since its peak splendor in Chartres' cathedral. Describing Chartres, Henry Adams said that "no other material, neither silk nor gold . . . can compare with translucent glass, and even the Ravenna mosaics or Chinese porcelains are darkness beside them." Some modern artists have begun to rediscover this truth. Last week brought two ambitious shows of modern stained glass...
Some of the buying was by investors who had sold their stocks and wanted to invest conservatively until they decided how the market would go. But much of the buying also came from those who thought interest rates were about at their peak and that they would not get as good a return in the future. There was a growing feeling that the big worldwide bogey was no longer inflation, but deflation...
...polio season apparently passed its peak in the third week of August, about a fortnight earlier than usual, said the Public Health Service. But with 18,825 cases reported thus far, 1953 will still rank as a high polio year. Only 1952 (26,016 cases) and 1949 (22,756) had more reported cases at the same date...