Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first time since the peak year of 1949, the U.S. Office of Education reported, college & university enrollments are slowly rising. This fall's total enrollment for 1,900 campuses: 2,148,000, up 1.5% over...
...rocket coasting upward, gravity would drop to zero. The men would be expected to rise from their beds of pain (not knowing which end is up) and perform navigation feats that would tax a professor of celestial mechanics. Dr. Strughold does not think they could work at peak form; they would be lucky to accomplish anything...
...publisher of Business Week and former superintendent of banks in New York state. Bell, who was considered in line for Secretary of the Treasury if Dewey had won in 1948, took note of such things as tightening money rates, weakness in commodity prices, narrowing profit margins and the approaching peak in arms spending. Said he: "Whether the boom lasts six months or two years more, the new Republican Administration will probably have to deal with a major business setback." On the other hand, said Bell in the if-and-but manner of most pundits, "most businessmen think a recession...
What Dr. Weatherby and staff were looking for was the peak of the underground dome. When this area was plotted on an ordinary contour map, it was time for Jacobsen & Co. to weigh all the geologic and other factors and make the final decision to drill. The big work was preparing the maps and locating the possible oil-bearing area; picking the spot to drill was easy. Says Jacobsen: "Any office boy at Amerada could have done that because you drill in the peak of the dome. As long as you stay in that area you could pick your spot...
...British government took over the shares to pay for arms purchases, the Cowdray family held 17%. For this, the British government paid $5,000,000 in its own bonds at Amerada's then market price. The same shares were worth $100 million at this year's peak price, and Britain recently began selling them in the U.S. (Phelps Dodge Corp., copper producers, bought $19 million worth, thus got a 3% interest in Amerada...