Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weeks ago Berliners and West Germans were tense with the knowledge that thousands of Red troops, at the peak of fitness after summer maneuvers, stood menacingly along the zonal borders. There was talk of "the October 1 danger point." The point passed, the troops withdrew. Last week Free Germany stopped holding its breath: the Soviet soldiers had moved back into winter quarters...
Within minutes after the kickoff, it became plain to the 56,748 rabid fans in Notre Dame Stadium that Frank Leahy had finally spoken a mouthful. Purdue Coach Stu Holcomb, onetime assistant to Army's master strategist Red Blaik, had drilled his Boilermakers to peak precision. Behind their own hard-charging line, Purdue's backs ripped a dazed Notre Dame forward wall to shreds. At halftime Purdue...
Having stuck its neck out once with an over-optimistic estimate of how long the current polio epidemic would rage (TIME, Sept. 4), the U.S. Public Health Service was chary of making predictions. But last week there was sound reason to hope that the epidemic had passed its peak. Even so, it would be the latest peak week in 18 years...
...credit since last summer, thought the time had come to tighten up some more. Bank loans, which expand credit and to some extent feed the fires of inflation, rose $108 million in the New York City area, to an all-time high of $5.7 billion (topping the previous peak of 1948). There was little doubt that loans around the nation were also...
Meanwhile, FRB got ready to tighten up further on consumer credit. It thought that Regulation W, which had gone into effect three weeks ago, was too mild. Consumer credit in August had climbed to an alltime peak of $20.9 billion, up $614 million from July...