Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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AIRCRAFT: Deliveries are about on schedule or slightly ahead, and two-thirds higher than they were a year ago. But production then was only about 215 planes a month, is only about 350 today. The mobilization-plan goal: 12,000 to 13,000 planes a year. (World War II peak: 100,-ooo a year.) Employment in the aircraft industry has jumped from 185,000 to more than...
Ronnie Berman brought American hopes to their peak by coming from behind in the 880 to beat out E. K. Robinson of Oxford in the stretch drive. Berman laid back until the last 100 yards and then literally ran Robinson into the ground. The game Englishman collapsed in the last five yards from exhaustion. The time of 1:54.9 was over a second and a half faster than Berman had ever done before...
...immigrant father. When the two sons came into the business during the mid-'30s, they parlayed their hobby of toy soldiers into a profitable sideline. Three days after Pearl Harbor, Comet got its first Government order, made 50,000 model warships for the Navy. In 1943, its peak year, it turned out more than $2,000,000 in models for the Government, everything from a ½-in. U.S. infantryman in full battle dress (price: $1.85 a dozen) to a complicated submarine with a finished interior (price...
...Beside the best U.S. efforts," wrote Critic Mosley, "our peak programs look as if they were produced by blind men stumbling around on their knees . . . There's fun, smoothness, zest, brashness, talent, originality . . . It's a funny thing, you seem to laugh more easily at American TV than you do at the comics...
Harvard, too, has attracted a peak number of applicants; but since the war, it has suddenly become locked in a friendly but dead earnest rivalry with every other top eastern college to recruit the "most outstanding" students in the country...