Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...m.p.h. Constellation made a sentimental journey with 38 passengers over the same 237-mile route. The flight symbolized the growth of aviation to a billion-dollar U.S. enterprise, with 1,542 planes which fan out over 170,000 miles of routes to every corner of the nation. At peak flying hours (5 to 6 p.m.), an average of more than 500 scheduled airliners is aloft, with some 11,000 people aboard. Day & night there...
...current influenza outbreak hit a new peak last night when Stillman Infirmary reported that it was "extremely busy" with 80 percent of all beds filled...
...Japanese Communist Party was at its peak: 200,000 claimed members, working control of Japanese unions, 3,000,000 votes in the Diet elections...
...hook & ladder. Mack soon became the leader in the heavy truck industry; year after year its earnings were good, its dividends fat. But in 1949 the oldest truckmaker in the U.S. no longer seemed to be built like a Mack. Sales were well down from 1947's peacetime peak of $124 million, and the peak profits of $8.2 million had turned into a $3.9 million deficit...
When a through of draft-wary upperclassmen besieged Shannon Hall this fall to join up in one of Harvard's R.O.T.C. units, the Army unit's cycle of popularity reached another peak. It had happened in 1914 and again before the last war, when R.O.T.C. enrollments jumped 50 percent. But this time there was a joker only 46 freshmen showed...