Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...across the mountaintops toward Geneva with 40 Pakistani seamen bound for England to man the newly launched freighter Queen City. A monk in the lofty monastery of St. Bernard thought he heard a noise. Two days later the Constellation's wreckage was sighted on the 15,781-foot peak of Mont Blanc by a pilot in a sport plane...
...large number of House activities this fall is an encouraging sign that the Houses may soon approach their pre-war peak and once again be more than just giant dormitories. But better scheduling of activities is needed...
...Slingshot . . . French Communists took the Goliath position, registered tolerant amusement at David's slingshot declaration of total psychological war on Communism. They were less amused one evening recently when a surprise Paix et Liberté broadcast came over the state-run radio at 8 p.m., France's peak listening hour. Hundreds of thousands of listeners heard David give French Communist Boss Maurice Thorez one of the roughest dressings-down that he had ever suffered. Paix et Liberté's free time on the air had been arranged by Premier René Pleven...
...started late, they moved fast, started opening supermarkets right & left, and added such wrinkles as pre-packaged meats & produce, weighed and pricetagged. They expanded by contracting. Each new supermarket closed some six of the old-type A & Ps so that the number of stores dwindled from 1930's peak of 15,737 to today's 4,682. Yet they built so much more volume that sales, payrolls and employees rose higher than ever...
Three Secrets (Warner) opens dramatically with the crash of a private plane on a mountain peak. The only survivor: the adopted five-year-old son of the plane's owners. While a rescue party toils up the cliff to rescue him, three women agonize at the foot of the mountain. Each of them -a Good Girl, a Bad Girl and a Career Girl-is convinced that the injured...