Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...curtailment of unprofitable commuter service is certainly good economics. If revenue traffic does not warrant operating certain "off-peak" trains, their continuance merely throws an added burden on other traffic, both freight and passenger. Is TIME criticizing sound private-enterprise methods...
Merchants, still plagued by heavy inventories, were also cutting retail prices to move goods faster. The move paid off: sales rose a bit higher than the same time last year, when war-scare buying was at a peak. Retail food prices were still edging up. This week, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that retail food prices went up ½ of 1 % in the last half of June, pushing the food-price index 12% above the pre-Korean level. But there were surpluses-and probably lower prices-ahead. Farm planting, said the Agriculture Department, is at the highest level since...
Moffie brought an All-Scholastic Back rating out of Brookline High and into Harvard in 1946. His varsity football career, however, was shadowed by injuries in all three seasons, the first under Dick Harlow and the last two under Art Valpey. He reached his peak in the Yale game of 1948, the contest in which he broke from scrimage on Harvard's first play for an 80-yard touchdown...
There is also a serious shortage in alloy metals used in jet and other high-temperature engines. All the world's resources of such scarce alloys as tungsten and nickel will not fill U.S. needs when production hits its peak. Defense officials are pushing a search for substitutes. So far, little luck...
...with his booming power, Dick fought his way to the semifinals of the Nationals at Forest Hills. U.S. Champion Art Larsen stopped him cold, but Savitt was tagged as a comer, and ranked sixth. Last winter, Savitt went on a barnstorming trip to Australia.There he began to reach peak form, partly under the tutelage of Veteran Adrian Quist. Says Quist: "He was ceaselessly eager to learn and profited promptly from every fragment of advice." Savitt crowned his tour by winning the Australian Championship.* In the four-set final, Savitt whipped young (22) Ken McGregor, who had clinched the Davis...