Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...economy stand? Banker Marriner Eccles, onetime chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, had one answer: "We're at the top of our boom now, and there are heavy deflationary pressures. Shortages are giving way to surpluses. More consumer goods will be produced than are sold. The home-building peak has passed . . . Exports are falling off rapidly . . ." Nevertheless, he expected little change for the rest of the year in business, neither "further inflation nor deflation...
Vote of Confidence. Here and there, some warning signals flew. Auto sales were high, but peak production (at an annual rate of 6,450,000 cars) had pushed dealers' inventories to the highest levels in many months and used-car lots were full. Appliance stocks were piling up in some cities. In Detroit, a price war broke out among the big stores knocking 25% off Westinghouse roasters and General Electric portable mixers...
...Italian Flag. At the 14,000-ft. level, one of the climbers suffered a mild heart attack. There was no choice but to set up a base camp-though for an ascent of 17,000-ft. Batian Peak, the highest of the mountain's peaks, this was much too low. Nonetheless, Benuzzi and the sturdier of his two companions, taking a route that professional mountaineers had declared impassable, set out for Batian...
They failed, defeated by ice, huge cliffs and a blizzard. But they did get to the top of Lenana Peak, more than 16,000 ft. high. There they planted an Italian flag, which they had managed to conceal throughout their internment. Then came the grueling descent, with the sick man a burden and with an almost complete lack of food. Eighteen days after they walked out, they staggered back into the P.W. camp. A humane British commander limited punishment to seven days behind bars...
Pusey's artistic talents reached their peak in his decoration of the Student Memorial Union. A spacious lounge with picture windows overlooking the Fox River below, a moderately-priced grill open 12 hours a day, and a Terrace Room for dances are the Union's chief attractions, and they are strange ones. Some on the faculty think the lounge is a little too inviting and the dances too frequent for a seriously scholastic college, but Pusey and the students are well pleased with their new building...