Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...average man (white) now 65 can expect to live to 77.4, the average woman to 79.4. The number of people in the U.S. past 65 years old has increased from 3,000,000 in 1900 to 11,500,000 today. Though total U.S. savings are near their alltime peak ($170 billion), more than a third of all U.S. families are saving nothing at all-and they are mostly families in the lower-income brackets who will need savings most...
...Gray has lost but one game, 9 to 7, to a good Yale team. They have won four. But Kesler still isn't satisfied with his team's showing to date. "They haven't hit their peak yet," he claims...
...Northwest's wheat and cattle lands had reached their peak of production; the Wenatchee and Yakima fruit orchards (apples, pears and peaches) had apparently surfeited their market. An early Northwest dream-vast trade with the Orient-had blinked out. In 1950 the slack was being taken up with public money: Boeing's big airplane contracts, the Bremerton Navy Yard, hydroelectric projects and the Hanford plant made the U.S. Government the region's biggest employer...
...this year's crop of graduates, said N.E.A.'s Commission on Teacher Education and Professional Standards. To cover replacements and rising enrollments, the U.S. needs 100,000. If the current trend persists, the country will be 800,000 short of elementary teachers when enrollments hit their expected peak...
...bellwether steel in such fine fettle, the rest of the economy seemed in good health, too. In March the Federal Reserve Board index of industrial production rose to 186, which was 25 points above the low mark of the 1949 recession, and within 9 points of the 1948 postwar peak. In the same month, manufacturers had booked the greatest amount of new business ($20.6 billion) since the war, 14% more than in March...