Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last year the combination of Russian machinery and Chinese toil had boosted China's steel production from a prewar peak of 1,800,000 tons to 5,350,000 tons, raised coal production from the Nationalist record of 62 million tons to 130 million tons. And this, according to Peking, is only prelude. Hailing 1958 as the year of "the great leap forward," the Chinese Reds took as their primary slogan: "Overtake Britain in production in 15 years." and after revising production targets ever upward, claimed that by the end of this year China would have produced 10.7 million...
According to Mark. In Indianapolis, a woman stopped 80-year-old Damon Peak on the street, earnestly began to pray for him while her male companion stole his wallet...
Evans, Colo. (TIME, Aug. 25). After nearly six weeks of inching up to its 14,260-ft. peak, airmen could exercise in an altitude chamber simulating 38,000 ft. without getting the bends, and they remained conscious for an average of 30 minutes at 30,000 ft. Drs. Balke and Velasquez took students from sea-level Lima to Morococha, found that after a few weeks they could work as hard as the oldtimers. But the highland natives still had one advantage: their lungs worked only half as hard as the newcomers' because they were twice as efficient in extracting...
...names of many nominees have been kept secret for fear of prejudicing the public before the girls have attained their peak efficiency. However, a few nominations have been announced. The Harvard Dramatic Club is sponsoring Liliane Solmsen '60. Miss Solmsen has spent the last two weeks in the Radcliffe gym. "I'll do my best," she promised...
Thursday night was the first time Elliot Forbes has appeared with the Choral Society. Under his direction, the group soared through a concert of Bach, Gluck, Palestrina, and Polenc, the latter's "Litanies A La Vierge Noire" providing a peak of sheer emotion in the vocal section of the program...