Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pico Peak--7-40 with 2 inches powder. Snowing. Upper and lower trails good...
These high costs, raised to an all-time peak during the post war inflation, are perplexing an increasingly large segment of the nation's colleges and universities. In 1948-1949 one-fifth of the private institutions of higher education lost money; included in this list were such schools as Yale, Columbia, Dartmouth, Cornell, and Brown. Harvard achieved a $500,000 surplus, but only by eating into precious reserve funds in order to pay off the debts of many deficit departments...
...like normal. Twelve years ago, Europe supplied about half Latin America's needs, took about half its exports; the U.S. took & received about one-third. At war's end, with Europe unable to resume its customary trade, U.S. exports to the Latin American market climbed to a peak of $4 billion in 1947 compared to Europe's $1 billion. But the U.S. could not absorb the same proportion of Latin America's exports. The result was a terrific dollar shortage throughout Latin America...
...Steelmakers, for example, had managed to keep production at high levels by using up their coal reserves and gambling on an early settlement. Though the strike had cost them 600,000 tons of steel, there was a brighter side. Before the strike, the industry had expected to stay at peak production only through the first half of this year. Now it has backlogged enough orders to keep it booming well through the third quarter...
Coach Dick Vaughan's Princeton sextet, which has a habit of shooting the puck ahead and then scrambling for it, reached its peak at the Dartmouth winter carnival when it topped the Green, 8 to 5. Since that time the Tigers have had to settle for victories over local Jersey schools while losing the big ones to BU, Harvard, and Yale...