Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Formosa regime has a long way to go, but it can point proudly to its achievements. Last fall general elections were held, with a genuinely free ballot. With the help of American ECAid, Formosa's economy has improved: electric power output is 25% higher now than at its peak under the efficient Japanese...
...gave a coalition of the Liberal and Country parties a 74-to-47 majority in the House of Representatives. Labor, however, kept control of the Senate, 36 to 27, and was able to hold up legislation asked by Liberal Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies. Menzies' frustration reached a peak when the High Court voided his anti-Communist law (TIME, March 19) and the Senate refused to pass a banking bill...
...textile market, some rayon prices were already down 12% from their peak, and sales were still lagging. Cotton traders, expecting a 16,000,000-bale crop this year (v. 10,000,000 in 1950), drove down the price of cotton for delivery next fall by $10 a bale, or 6%. In other futures markets, grains, sugar, coffee and cocoa were all on the skids; the Dow-Jones index of futures prices dropped to 204.90, off 10 points from its February peak and the lowest level in two months...
Those oarsmen have been trained to a peak which their coaches expect to be reached on Saturday. The winners will doubtless row well in their race here, but it will be an anticlimax, for the race on Saturday is no more elimination to select a suitable foe for the local oarsmen. It is The Boat Race. William E. Slesnick...
...pinch, had now rehired most of them. Last week the automakers turned out 168,000 units, 40% above the 1950 period when Chrysler was closed by a strike. Building was nearly 25% above the February 1950 figure. And in January business inventories jumped $2 billion to $63 billion despite peak retail sales...