Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gamble. Not even at the peak of World War II was the U.S. using as much oil as it is now. Since war's end, U.S. oil consumption has risen 60%, from 4,912,000 barrels a day to 7,915,000, and is continuing to rise on an average of 7% a year. To keep pace, the oil industry spent a record $3 billion last year, drilled more wells (44,516) than ever before, and proved up 2.2 billion more barrels of new oil reserves than the nation consumed during the same period. To meet the still greater...
Barnaby really got his players up last week for the big one at New Haven; in fact, they got so high that they never stopped counting victories in the 15-match contest until they hit 14. But after reaching its peak for that triumph, the team's spirit dropped off a little, and even the favored doubles team got whipped in the New England Intercollegiates on Saturday. Barnaby's job now is to perk his players up again for Dartmouth without letting them get too overconfident...
...Hampshire Lakes Region Association has been planning this celebration for some time, and, although it will come at the peak of the tourist season, there will still be accommodations if the Association's arrangements are successful...
Before he had done for the week, Gross mentioned nearly 200 different policemen, and painted a shocking and fascinating picture of the methods by which he virtually controlled whole police divisions in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens at the peak of his career. During 1947, '48 and '49, he poured out $1,000,000 annually in graft and gifts...
Turndown. One reason for the easing of steel supplies is the dwindling demand from makers of appliances and other consumer durables, who are not even taking the metal allotted to them. Another is that the peak has been passed in defense-plant construction. But builders, who would like to use steel for many another project, are still hamstrung by restrictions on nondefense building (see Controls...