Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Cox showed that he had learned his copper lessons well. In the first six months of 1951, he reported, Kennecott profits hit a new peak of $50 million, up 33% from the same period of 1950 (despite a 183% jump in taxes). Some of the gain resulted from a higher price for copper (24½ v. 18½ a Ib. in 1950). But much of it came from the 32% boost in copper production which Charlie Cox and his new team had managed to achieve in a year. This week, as the nation's copperworkers went...
...Jack. He both be wildered and fascinated them with his free meals, free massages, free Florida vacations for his "associates" (employees) and the $39,000 bonus he paid his secretary for "just working hard." On a $100,-ooo stake and $3,400,000 in Government loans, he rang up peak sales of $90 million in 1943 and overnight became the nation's largest maker of airplane starters and automatic pilots...
...layoff brought his game back to its peak. Dick whipped U.S. Champion Larsen (6-1, 6-4, 6-4) in the quarterfinals. But his big test did not come until his semi-final match with dogged Herb Flam, another fighter and a player who relies on agility and retrieving rather than power. In twelve meetings, Savitt had never beaten Flam. When Flam won the first set, 6-1, it looked like the same old story. The second set was a backbreaker, 15-13, and Savitt won it after trailing 1-5. After that it was easy...
Almost ten times as powerful as any of their predecessors, the new American eyes will be installed in high-altitude observatories at Climax, Colo. and on Sacramento Peak near High Rolls, N. Mex. Their cameras will soon be tracing the progress of the sun across the southwestern U.S., helping practical astronomers to study the origin of cosmic rays, to work out new methods of long-range weather prediction, perhaps to uncover atomic secrets from the sun's hot heart...
When the price of cotton soared as high as 46? a Ib. last January, its peak since the Civil War, U.S. cotton growers were all free-enterprisers to a man. Government interference in the cotton market was the last thing in the world they wanted to hear about. Price Boss Mike Di Salle's insistence on a 45.77?-a-lb. ceiling, they said, would "upset the delicate mechanism of the market...