Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Detroit was back on a six-day week to make up time lost by strikes, and some automakers expected to work at peak output for at least three months. Output this week is scheduled at 107,000 cars, highest of the year. Ford has already sold 100,000 new models, more than 10% of its 1958 model sales. Plymouth is 100,000 cars behind dealer orders. Chevrolet will not be able to catch up on orders for at least two months. American Motors Corp. broke all its previous production records, has nudged out Pontiac to become No. 6 carmaker with...
...forward-looking $33 million expansion program that has already hiked its capacity 47% and slashed the per-ton cost of annual ingot capacity. Now producing at an annual rate of 1,320,000 tons, Granite City will have upped its output by 217% from 1947 when it reaches peak efficiency next year (v. a 61% hike for the rest of the industry...
...still held back by wildcat strikes at General Motors, but other carmakers hiked schedules. Chrysler hopes to increase production 15% this week. Ford's Mercury-Edsel-Lincoln division plans a 40% hike, and Studebaker-Packard scheduled a 50% rise; with Ramblers running off the line at an alltime peak, American Motors raised schedules...
...miles-or only one-third of the distance to the moon. But it made a much nearer miss than the figures seem to show. The earth's gravitational field drops off with the square of the distance. With only 2% more thrust or only about 580 more m.p.h. peak velocity. Pioneer could have passed the moon* and escaped from the earth forever...
...Springs, Va. On top of the fact that the gross national product rate in July-September apparently was around $440 billion, v. the recession's low of $425.8 billion in January-March, Weeks predicted that the final-quarter G.N.P. rate will hit $450 billion, v. the prerecession peak of $445.6 billion in the summer of 1957-and go even higher...