Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...greatest tonnages since the Mesabi Range opened 61 years ago. U.S. Steel's 64-boat fleet, which racked up its first 4,000,000-ton month in August, is headed for a full-year haul of 29 million tons, 3,000,000 more than in 1951, the peak year...
...closing prices last June, and about 25% above their early 1952 lows. But Australia's lively market Was not much consolation for U.S. wool growers, who are in what the Agriculture Department calls "a very depressed condition." Annual wool consumption within the U.S. has fallen from the postwar peak of 738 million lbs. in 1946 to 472 million lbs., and price supports on wool have cost U.S. taxpayers $92.2 million in the last decade, the largest loss incurred on any storable commodity...
Violinist Yehudi Menuhin took time out from a punishing European concert tour to climb Switzerland's 9,757-ft. Mt. Schilthorn. delighted his wife and companions after the six-hour ascent by standing on his head at the peak and running through his yoga exercises...
...Word of Hope. Its tragic peak was reached after its co-writers, Carl Bixby and Don Becker, succumbed to listener demand and married Chichi to Stephen Hamilton, a crippled sweetheart. Later on they realized their mistake: "It didn't fit in with a young girl who was footloose & fancy-free. So we had their baby die of pneumonia after Stephen had taken him out in the rain, and then killed him off with a heart attack. For two weeks afterward we kept Chichi off the air in the interests of good taste, and that was that. He was never...
...what many individual groups of stocks had already done. Said E. F. Hutton's Gerald M. Loeb: "The bull market really ended quite a while ago as far as the majority of stocks is concerned." He pointed out that gold stocks as a group have never topped their peak of November 1949. The soft drink and brewing group reached its high in January 1950; a year later, copper stocks, retail stores and steels reached theirs. Two years ago the ethical drug stocks reached their top, followed within a few months by such groups as agricultural machinery, mining and smelting...