Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ferguson, who had based part of his case on the charge that Ford was monopolizing the tractor business, could not prove it. His own sales in 1951 reached $64.5 million (v. their $79.4 million peak while Ford was making the tractor), and his company netted $406,956. The antitrust part of the suit was dismissed by the court...
...smaller than it ought to be, because we really cannot say what would be a normal enrollment." In the years following the department's inception in '46 it grew large very quickly. It was a new field that offered a broad program of study, and at its peak in the class of '50, the department was drawing an over large number of men who were not vocationally interested in the subject matter. These were students who were looking for a general education at a time when the college's General Education program was in an extremely experimental and formative stage...
They were wrong about the Alaska Highway: it is busier and better than ever today. Its immediate postwar traffic of 500 vehicles a month has zoomed to 1,000 a day. Even the new peak is expected to double after next June, when the connecting Hart Highway from the West Coast is completed. That will cut off a 900-mile detour and give traffic from as far south as San Diego, Calif, direct access to the Yukon and Alaska...
...even when he has visitors in his office. The bottle contains Pepsi-Cola, the drink that Steele took over two years ago when Walter Mack was kicked upstairs to chairman (later he left the company). At the time, Pepsi had gone flat: earnings were down 78% from their peak, dividends had been stopped. Since then, President Steele has proved that he has plenty of bounce to every ounce of his 208 Ibs. Last week he reported that in 1951 Pepsi-Cola Co. grossed $47,000,000 and more than doubled its net to $2.6 million (45? a share). This year...
...split the cost with bottlers on their local advertising, helped them buy more trucks and bottles to fill the peak hot weather sales. He bought and revamped 17 bottling plants at a cost of $13 million, sold some of them to new bottlers, added more flavoring to his drink. To keep Pepsi uniform...