Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cases in a single week, boosting the total for the "disease year" (which begins in late March) to 12,046. This was 71% more than in the same period last year, and alarmingly close to the 12,865 in 1949, which turned out to be the nation's peak epidemic year for polio...
...still too early to say whether 1952 was going to be like 1949. Each summer, the onslaught of poliomyelitis reaches its peak in late August or September. Until they could plot that peak on their charts, Public Health statisticians were making no forecasts...
Died. Mark Sullivan, 77, author (Our Times), onetime (1914-17) editor of Collier's, and political columnist (syndicated, at his peak, in close to 150 newspapers); of a heart attack; in West Chester, Pa. (see PRESS...
There were about 580,000 Government workers when Franklin Roosevelt came to office in 1932, a wartime peak of 3,769,646 when he died. The figure dropped back to 1,950,408 in February 1950, still a half million higher than in any prewar year. It quickly began to rise again, last month hit 2,603,300, nearly back to the postwar peak set last December, when there were 2,921,600. This is just about double the number in June 1941-another rearmament period-and it is 116,809 more than were on the payroll in June...
...cost of living inched up to an all-time peak between May 15 and June 15, stood at 189.6% of the 1935-39 average -0.3% higher than the month before, u.6% higher than in June 1950. TRAFFIC