Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since 1947, Studebaker sales have jumped from $268 million to $550 million; profits rose from $9,000,000 to a peak of $27,500,000, before being nipped by the excess-profits tax. (In the first three quarters of 1952, hit by E.P.T. and the steel strike, net was $9,000,000.) Studebaker stock has risen from $18 to $41. Like everyone else, Studebaker has been pinched by metal allocations. When all controls are off and defense work diminishes, Vance expects to turn out 520,000 cars a year, 150% more than current production, and get 8% of all auto...
Whatever else is ailing in Europe, the steel business is in good health. The Continent's production hit 109 million metric tons in 1952. an alltime peak, the U.N.'s Economic Commission for Europe reported last week. Western Europe turned out nearly 58% of that amount. However, the Iron Curtain lands are coming up fast; in 1952 their production is said to have risen 14%, while the West's rose 8%. Britain, with 16.4 million metric tons, is still the largest steel producer in Western Europe, and gained nearly a million metric tons. Together...
...Although fiscal 1953-54 will be the peak year of spending in the nation's defense buildup, the budget asks Congress for substantially less new spending authority ($72.9 billion) than was requested in any of the last three years. Reason for this reduction: the tremendous carryover of spending authority for military equipment, granted by Congress in earlier years but not used because of the great gap between orders and delivery...
...CRIMSON's reviewer of de Hartog's The Four Poster pointed out that this work goes the three-character Voice of the Turtle one better by requiring only two players. He added the comment that "the ultimate peak has yet to be scaled" and that "de Hartog's record will stand for a time." Actually this is no record at all, for Claude Vincent's full-length drama Conscience has only one character. This play was done magnificently last spring in both Boston and New York by one of our greatest actors, Maurice Schwartz...
...suppose there still remains the "ultimate peak" of producing a play with no characters at all. --Caldwell Titcomb...