Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hydraulic presses bent the lengths of 27-in. steel pipe to fit every bump, dip, peak and ravine along the snaking route. Winches and big tractors swung the 30-ft. sections into position, and welders sealed the joints. The outer covering was finally tested with the pipeliners' "conscience": a machine that uses a 10,000-volt electrical charge, and registers a short circuit at any spot where the covering is too thin. Then bulldozers filled in the trench, leaving only a great scar winding across the forest and the mountains...
...pressure-cooker ring, the heat (104°) took its toll. For the first time in a championship bout, a referee, Ruby Goldstein, called it quits after ten rounds and was lugged off to the dressing room suffering from heat prostration. Robinson, in one of his peak performances, was doing all the work while the heavier (by 15½ lbs.) Maxim was content to bide his time, using his superior weight in the clinches to tire out the challenger. The strategy, such as it was, began to pay off. In Round 13, Sugar Ray, his eyes glazing and his legs rubbery...
...Raytheon Manufacturing Co., a kind of Buck Rogers, Inc. A prewar pygmy whose sales never topped $5,000,000, Raytheon grew into a giant during World War II, when it made more than half of all the search radar used by the Allies, and its sales hit a peak of $178 million. (Its stock had an even more fantastic rise, shot from 50? in 1940 to a high of $90 in 1945.) But at war's end, Raytheon ran into the red as its sales tumbled to around $60 million...
...cost-of-living edged up almost to its all-time peak of last January. The Bureau of Labor Statistics' index for May (189) was only one-tenth of 1% below the record. Its climb of .2% since April meant a 2? per hour automatic wage rise for 1,300,000 railroad workers, and may soon mean another raise for over 1,000,000 auto workers whose contracts are tied to a different period. Moreover, no matter how the steel strike is settled it will mean 1) higher wages, 2) higher prices for steel and products containing steel all down...
...They lie on either side of a ridge running across the moon's Mare Foecunditatis. Both were formed, he thinks, when a large meteorite hit the ridge at a very small angle. Its speed carried it through the loose material and down to the solid rock below the peak of the ridge. Then it bounced up like a ball and tore into the open, leaving a tunnel. The inside of the tunnel may be lined with a casing of glassy once-molten rock which solidified quickly enough to keep the moon's gravitation from collapsing the tunnel...