Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shrinking Success. By 1922, the Forward was selling 225,000 copies a day, its circulation peak. But Cahan's own measurement of success was the rapidity with which Jewish immigrants were absorbed into American life and turned to non-Yiddish papers. In effect, the paper's success could be measured by its drop in circulation. How well Cahan has succeeded may be gauged by the fact that the Forward, though still the biggest Yiddish daily, has dwindled to 83,226 daily and 94,390 Sunday. One of Cahan's favorite jokes is that for every $4 made...
With the 1949 epidemic of poliomyelitis (a record 42,375 cases) fresh in their minds, statisticians of the U.S. Public Health Service had watched uneasily as the figures for 1950 skyrocketed in the early summer. Last week, they relaxed; it looked as though the polio season was passing its peak early. In the latest week fully reported there were 1,489 new cases of polio, only 47 more than the week before and a far cry from the 3,416 a year ago. The total to date for the "disease year" (which begins in mid-March): 9,097 cases, compared...
First Meeting. McGregor had never seen Schroeder play, but he was impressed with his record in Davis Cup singles: seven straight victories over Australia. At 29, Ted Schroeder, the U.S. mainstay, was admittedly past his peak. Uncoiling a booming serve, Ken won the first game with the loss of only one point. Barging up to the net with racehorse strides, playing the position with the adroitness of a Vincent Richards, McGregor kept Schroeder constantly off balance...
...Trib's chief editorial writer. Parsons, a solid newsman and no roisterer, tried to put a new polish on the old formula by adding such features as David Low's cartoons and increasing the coverage of international news. By 1947, circulation had climbed to above the prewar peak (the Herald appears on 6,500 European newsstands), but the paper had stayed for the most part in the red. Later it was hard hit by currency devaluations, which raised its costs and cut its advertising revenues...
...began. By last week the surging bull market had knocked many of the stocks off the bargain counter. In five days last week, the Dow-Jones industrial average moved up 4.20 to 219.23; this week it pushed up nearly another point to 220.21, just 8 points below the peak established before the Korean war broke out. The railroad average did even better: it went to 63.39, its highest point since July...