Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Civil War, was still getting organized when the Union Army lost 17,287 men at the battle of Chancellorsville. Result: the company collapsed. It reorganized the following year, changed its name to Metropolitan in 1868. It got another bad jolt in the 1918 flu epidemic, when at the peak of the disaster, more than 5,000 claims a day were trundled into Metropolitan's home office, loaded in huge wicker baskets. Metropolitan paid 68,000 death claims...
EARNINGS Green Fingers Westinghouse Electric Corp.'s President Gwilym A. Price reported with a grin last week that although his company's sales had dropped last year from $970 million to $945 million, his net had risen to a new alltime peak of $67 million, a thumping 18% above 1948. Price's explanation: "More efficient manufacturing facilities . . . operating economies, and excellent teamwork...
...when Founder Cory retired, Alsdorf and a group of friends scraped up enough money to buy control of the company. He added electric fans, stoves and air humidifiers to the Cory line, and in five years boosted sales from $2.5 million to a 1947 peak of $10.2 million-and profits from...
...been doing better this year than Jock McIntyre in the 50 and 100. The Indian star, however, is sure of at least second in both sprints. Shep Brown in the 50 and Norm Watkins in the 100 will have to show peak form to take thirds, and Doug Kinney and Bob Tolf in the 220 and 440 to take seconds. The breaststroke is all Dartmouth; Harvard can get only third. The backstroke will go to the Crimson's John Steinhart, but Tom Woods will need his best to take second or third. Indian Dick Rogers will win the dive with...
...undergraduates want scholarships, and 1200 applicants for the class of '54 want financial aid along with their admission to the College. Both of these numbers are greater than ever before, even though the enrollment in the College and the number of admission applications have dropped below their former peak levels...