Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second part of the program, the Orchestra reached its best. It polished off Respighi's "Antiche Danze" well, leading up to its major effort of the evening, the Mozart Double Piano Concerto. Here the Orchestra reached the peak of its abilities with delicate strings blending beautifully with the horns and woodwinds. Soloists Norman Wolfsohn and Seymour Hayden, a pair of renegade math instructors, coordinated their playing excellently and performed capably. Frescobaldi's Toccata ended the program in fine style. The strings were particularly good in this piece...
...Manhattan last week, will begin when World War II's bonds fall due and are paid off. The bonds will create billions of new purchasing power. In 1952 alone, almost $4 billion will be paid off, in the following year just short of $5.6 billion, in 1954 a peak of $6.3 billion, in 1955 another $5 billion. Slichter did not think that all of this would be spent; some would be reinvested in U.S. bonds. But he expected that part would go to buy goods...
...those historic events which Wall Streeters see only a few times in a lifetime. For weeks, they had nervously watched the bull market climb, waiting to see if it would top the crest of 1946's bull market. The peak: 212.50 in the Dow-Jones industrial average. Last week, after a surging rise of 6.18 points in four days, the market passed the 1946 high. At week's end, the industrials stood at 212.55, the highest closing level since...
...warmest eulogies for blue jays fried in butter: "The best meat I ever had in the hills." He was in a more philosophical mood the day he stood on top of Darling Mountain and felt "a challenge to explore each ridge and valley, to climb each snow-capped peak, to sleep in each high basin, to sample the berries and fish and all the other rich produce of the wilderness...
...these seminars, Jordan asserted, Radcliffe hopes to help them utilize this time. He explained that middle aged women are at their mental peak and able to fully profit from such courses...