Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whole issue of TIME took up less plane space than a paperbacked detective story. So we flew to distant points film positives of our pages, from which local presses could print copies for quick delivery to civilians and to allied forces on nearby fronts. At war's peak, we were printing some 834,000 overseas copies at 19 places for distribution to 180 countries and possessions. Among the 19: Bogotá, Sao Paulo, Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Cairo, Teheran and Sydney. Where transport problems were worst, as in Iceland, Greenland, Alaska, Burma and the Pacific, we sent out pocket...
...clearer in New York, where 13 three-year-olds showed up for the 27th running of the mile-and-a-six-teenth Wood, the East's final Derby test. Despite the fact that he practically trains himself, had apparently reached his peak a month too soon, and had run a disappointing eighth against much the same field the previous week, UNCLE MIL TIE, was backed into even-money favoritism. Neglected at 13-to-2 was REPETOIRE, a game chestnut colt with a misspelled name who was not bred to run very far, but has managed to win all four...
When Irving W. Wilson graduated from M.I.T. in 1911, he went to work for the Aluminum Co. of America with some misgivings. He feared that it had reached the peak of its expansion and that advancement might be limited. Last week Irving Wilson got final proof that his fear had been groundless: at 60, he became Alcoa's president. In his 40 years at Alcoa he earned the nickname "Chief," helped the company grow from a $21 million-a-year business into an empire whose 1950 sales were $476 million...
...Force talked about a court-martial. The National Park people muttered darkly about a $500 fine for flyers who go around landing on their mountain tops-their rescue team was stuck up on the icy peak. Said Hodgkin: "I think Americans are beginning to lose their self-reliance. I'd be glad to fly back up there and get them...
...three days the stock market soared more than six points. At week's end it broke through February's old peak and set a new bull-market high...