Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doctor found the U.S. in roaring good health. "From the beginning of World War II . . . our national output rose by more than 60%," still showed no sign of reaching an end of expansion. "Our total [physical] output today has reached approximately the 1944 [wartime] peak . . . with much shorter hours and less strain upon facilities." Even if the contemplated defense program were doubled, "it would still be clearly within our capabilities." The U.S. was the industrial giant, alongside of whom all other industries looked puny...
...without a change in the law.) Meanwhile, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that food prices as of Dec. 15 had jumped 3.2% in a month, to within a hair's breadth of 1948's alltime high; by last week the index was probably at a new peak...
...Pico Peak: Three to ten with six powder. Poor upper, fair lower...
...manpower, the U.S. was slightly ahead of World War II. The potential labor force was 66 million v. World War II's peak of 65 million. But the difference was more than in quantity. It was also in quality. The U.S. had an immense, immeasurable reserve in war production know-how stored in the heads and hands of millions of workers and thousands of vigorous, tough-minded executives who had learned the production tricks during World...
That sounded like a fairly rapid speedup; actually, it wouldn't be. Quintupling present plane production would mean about 15,000 planes a year, about 5,800 more than one month's production at World War II's peak. Military electronic production is small; quadrupling it will be an easy job for the enormous new electronics industry. (In 1950, Motorola's $175 million output of radio and television sets alone was about equal to the output of the entire radio industry in 1940.) Combat vehicle production is also negligible. At year...