Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yellin's music is supposed to approximate normal speech inflections, but it does not even come close. There can be no excuse for accenting the second syllable of "Larry" (this happens at least twice) or for writing crescendo that reach their peak at the most unimportant word of a sentence. Nor does the music ever serve to heighten the dramatic situation. Instead, it is mildly pleasant background music that certainly does not represent Yellin at his best...
...stretch-outs cut down the rate of delivery of new planes in the close future: e.g., the President's cuts will deprive the Air Force of an average of 400 new combat planes per month in 1953 and 1954, and the U.S. will never get up to the peak production rate the Air Force had counted...
...From Charleston Peak, 140 miles-the longest jump ever attempted-to a relay on unnamed Mt. X. To get 12,000 Ibs. of equipment to the peak, Landsberg borrowed a Marine Corps helicopter, which did the job in just 48 hours...
Landsberg's circuit was ready days before the blast, but his big trouble began just before H-hour. The AEC's power supply at the test site failed, so the telecast switched to a camera on Charleston Peak. When the power on News Nob came on again, the cameras did not have enough warmup time to catch the explosion. Result: TV Announcer Fred Henry described the first three minutes from ten miles away, while cameras recorded it from a distance of 57 miles...
...Wobblies were members of the I.W.W. (International Workers of the World), a radical union that reached its peak in 1912, and was largely broken by vigilante action and a movement of many of its members to the Communist Party a few years after World...