Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assessments amounted to $1.5 billion, which was $35 million lower than the year before, and $400 million less than the peak year of 1939. This decrease was primarily due to the city's old age; Boston did most of its building from 40 to 80 years ago. As the price of living rises, property valuation should follow. Inflation has raised the value of Boston property, but depreciation has lowered it even more...
UNION CARBIDE & CARBON CORP., which has spent more than $200 million expanding its Bakelite, chemicals and other divisions since the war, netted a peak $124.1 million, 26% more than...
...Cheerful Patient. From high above on the Peak, the white façades of California-style apartment houses and the frescoed mansions of wealthy traders looked down on the colony's business section. Hong Kong's polyglot population-Chinese, Britons, Americans, Eurasians and White Russians-swirled along the narrow, arcaded sidewalks, pausing at the intersections to thread their way through a steady stream of Citroëns and Chevrolets, Buicks and Bentleys...
Only a few Hong Kong residents, undeceived by the appearance of normality admitted their concern. Said one Briton, looking down from his Peak apartment at one of loveliest views in the Orient: We all know that some day we shall lose this fair, imperial place. And sometimes I think it would be better to throw it in their bloody teeth now, rather than to give it up inch by inch. But I know we'll never...
Airline Pilot Russell Bidulph, flying a C-47 from Port Moresby to Lae, looked down on Lamington. Said Bidulph later: "It seemed to cough, and in an instant there was a Bikini-like cloud above it." In a single blast the whole northern side of the peak had blown up. The black cloud, "full of streaks of red lightning," boiled up to 50,000 feet, mushroomed 100 miles wide. Not molten lava, but pumice dust and hot scoria (like clinkers from a furnace) flew out of the crater, making the earth for miles around too hot to live...