Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over Pittsburgh, Youngstown and a dozen other steel towns, there was a pillar of smoke by day and the glow of fires by night, as the mills worked at capacity. They ladled out 97 million tons of the metal, almost 10 million more than in the peak year of World War II, and twice as much as all the steel mills in the rest of the world...
...year-old Noor (also 130 Ibs.) -but "still and all, my hat is off to Noor." Said wrinkled Jockey Johnny Longden: "Noor is the greatest stakes horse I ever rode." Said Noor's owner, Mrs. Charles S. Howard: "I believe we'll just retire him at his peak...
Last week still another expedition, led by Oscar R. Houston of New York, returned to New Delhi after making a preliminary pass at the defiant peak. All earlier expeditions had attacked the north slope, which lies in Tibet. Houston's group decided to investigate the unexplored south slope, which lies in friendly and comparatively accessible Nepal. From a distance, the south side of the mountain looked considerably more favorable for climbing. The slope of the strata looked gentler, and there was a promising formation something like huge stairs. Even more important was the fact that the southern side...
...wanted. For $5,300,000, he bought Square D Co.'s famed Kollsman Instrument Division, which makes altimeters, airspeed indicators, guided missile components, etc. Kollsman, now operating below capacity, will not pass officially into Swanson's hands until Dec. 30. When will Kollsman be at peak production again? Said cocky Glenn Swanson: "Late that afternoon...
...preface, the report said, "Ours is not merely a problem of having a given number of troops and a quantity of weapons available at any given moment, but of maintaining the basic capacity for whatever military operations may develop; nor is it so much a problem of peak effort and a swift culmination as of sustained readiness over a period of unknown and perhaps unknowable duration...