Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that mean that the economic sky was going to fall? There was no sign of such a catastrophe in the barnyard-or in the sky. Despite the big rise in prices, commodity prices had still not yet reached their boomtime peak of 1948 (see chart). On the contrary, the first rumors of peace last week sent the Associated Press index of commodity prices tumbling in the biggest break in more than two years...
Even though the post-war building boom was not far from its peak, no one wished to delay construction. The feeling was that this project had been long enough delayed; the process of changing the atmosphere at the g r a d u a t e schools would take some time, so that the sooner they were started the better...
...which was close to the ragged edge last year when a $44 million RFC loan saved it, had already moved into the black in July with its sleek, rakish Kaiser. Last week, K-F, which is making 400 Henry Js a day, turned out a new daily peak of 1,200 cars. Furthermore, Edgar Kaiser predicted 1,600 a day as soon as a second shift gets rolling. Edgar also had thinned out K-F's inefficient dealers by trimming the number of agencies from...
Bestsellers have never been Conrad Aiken's forte. He reached the peak of his reputation during the '20s, when he wrote long and languid narratives about sexual decadence, blending the theories of Sigmund Freud with the tone of Edgar Allan Poe. In 1930, his poetry won him a Pulitzer Prize. Since then, Aiken has increasingly found himself in the painful position of the good minor writer who has ceased to be a novelty, his name well known but his work little read. Never one to cater to literary fashion, Aiken has continued to write as he sees...
...told, Gossard is selling more than 500 foundation items in "The Gossard line of beauty," including strapless bras and bodices and "mystifiers" (trade name for falsies). This year it expects to gross more than $10 million, and net more than its 1948 peak of $632,000. President Savard is convinced that the American woman is now sold on sensible foundation garments, fights shy of fads that try to squeeze her in or make her figure what it isn't. What she wants, said Savard, is "freedom with control...