Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...being towed by truck out of the 315 square miles of rundown farmland that must be depopulated. Near the perimeter of the project, 22 miles across, are woods full of trailers. Already there are more than 21,000 workers on the project, and the labor force is expected to peak...
Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Co., which runs the plant for the AEC, says that total employment is now about 4,800. This big drop from the wartime peak of 12,000 represents more automatic machinery, not decreased production. Few of the 4,800 workers are actually inside the production plants themselves. The buildings have four floors, each packed with roaring motors and screaming gas pumps. Some workers pedal on bicycles through the earsplitting loneliness. In the whole enormous plant, which runs continuously, there are only 370 men per shift, including the guards and the laboratory staff...
...death of Owner John R. McLean,* the Enquirer, famed for its slogan "Solid Cincinnati Reads the Cincinnati Enquirer" has been held in trust for his heirs by Washington's American Security & Trust Co. The bank wanted to sell the paper; it thinks the newspaper market is at its peak. Last week, Times-Star Publisher Hulbert Taft, 74-year-old cousin of Senator Robert A. Taft, indicated that the bank probably would accept his bid for the Enquirer (rumored price: $7,500,000). Said Taft: "It seems clear that the people of Cincinnati would prefer to have the Enquirer purchased...
With the chips down, Schroeder finally evened the matches at 2-all by beating Rose, with Kramer's sideline coaching, 6-4, 13-11, 7-5. But it was too late. Sedgman was at the peak of his form as he slashed through Seixas, 6-4, 6-2, 6-2, to keep the venerable cup in Australia for the second straight year...
...years after that. They point out that only arms production kept last year's sales slump from being much sharper. What, they ask, will keep the economy going when all the expansion is completed, and arms spending is cut back from its peak...