Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this peak point of the play, The Cocktail Party, however didactic, is exceedingly effective. The final scene, however, badly overlengthens and considerably flattens and weakens the play; robs it, for all its substance, of the right, full-bodied effect. Dramatically, The Cocktail Party is a number of shining pieces rather than a satisfactory whole...
Most positions created by the opening of new plants have already been filled by returning veterans, and future hiring will be largely on a replacement basis. "Apparently the peak of employment of in-experienced college graduates by business and industry was reached in late 1948 or early 1949," Endicott said...
...protection in a pack. At week's end, McKenley ran again in the 500-yard at Brooklyn's Knights of Columbus meet and finished third. "He learns fast," said Gibson, who expected to hand his star pupil a diploma by the time the indoor season reached its peak at the Millrose Games later this month...
...under the direction of some 16,000 Stanley dealers. By such direct, folksy methods, big, ruddy-faced F. Stanley Beveridge, 70, has made his Stanley Home Products, Inc. bigger even than famed Fuller Brush Co., where he learned the tricks of the trade. Last year his sales hit a peak of $35 million (v. Fuller's $32,250,000); its net: $2,900,000. Last week, as he stepped up operations in the Canadian market and planned to use national advertising for the first time, President Beveridge expected a 25% increase...
...freezers and air-conditioning equipment. By the end of World War II, Amana's leading line, a $500 home freezer, was being sold in nearly 5,000 retail outlets, backed by national advertising. By last year, the refrigerator plant, still run by Foerstner, employed 350 workers in the peak season (including non-Amanists), and grossed nearly $3,000,000. Such capitalistic prosperity proved too frightening to the 1,500 Amanists...