Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dailies representing 81% of the total circulation covered are behind Ike v. a peak of 79% for Dewey in 1948. ¶ 142 dailies representing 9.5% of the total circulation are backing Democrat Adlai Stevenson v. Truman's peak...
Like all the others, it mushroomed during World War II. At the peak, Northrop had 10,000 employees, turned out $280 million worth of planes and parts, including 1,000 of his P-61 Black Widow night fighters. Like many another builder, Northrop also lost millions on postwar ventures into nonaircraft projects (among Northrop's bad bets: motor scooters and calculating machines). He also bet on a three-engine transport plane and his long cherished Flying Wing. The transport was behind its time, the Flying Wing ahead of it. The Government, which had staked both to $80 million worth...
...Start. Busily working on campaign strategy in Manhattan's Commodore Hotel, Ike's staffers readily rationalized their difficulties; they planned it this way, they said. The Ike campaign will "peak" just at election time. They don't want to throw the big punches too soon. What needs doing now is being done. In the most important states, Eisenhower-Nixon organizations have already completed the groundwork for local campaigning, and have done it with remarkably little friction between volunteers and Republican regulars (a friction that plagued G.O.P. Candidate Wendell Willkie...
...stocks up & down like a thermometer. Last week, while Wall Streeters were glad to trade 1,000,000 shares a day, the Japanese were trading an average of 8,000,000 daily, and had seen volume mount as high as 15 million shares, close to the U.S. peak in 1929. Many a favorite Japanese stock has doubled and tripled in a few months...
...Minor, K. 491, with strength and tenderness; Conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler, making the Vienna Philharmonic perform with the best in Beethoven's Symphony No. 7, Schubert's Unfinished and Mozart's Symphony No. 40 in G Minor; Violinist Yehudi Menuhin at his dazzling peak in Paganini's popular, pyrotechnical Concerto...