Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Danny Kaye, according to Howard Barnes in Sunday's Herald Tribune, is the first real comedian to reach the screen since W. C. Fields in "Million Dollar Legs." More specifically, Barnes said Kaye has just arrived at the peak of his career in "The Inspector General...
...economists would say that in 1949 the U.S. economy had achieved stability. But the U.S. had started down from the dizzy and dangerous peak of inflation without breaking its neck. Food and apparel prices had come down 3.8%, wholesale prices of manufactured goods about 5% and the total cost of living 1.1%. In short, prices which had gyrated upward in giddy, uneven swings were coming down in an orderly manner. The bogy of recession that had haunted everyone for four years was not completely laid, but it was a vanishing specter...
...Lewis had imposed on coal had just about priced coal out of the market. Result: Lewis suffered his first contract defeat in years. Production royalties to his pension fund dropped so low by year's end that payments were stopped. Coal production, which had been close to a peak of 680 million tons in 1947, dropped to about 460 million tons last year. With oil about as cheap as coal (and cleaner and easier to handle), the industry got sicker by the month...
...than in the stock-market tables. For three years, the market had been a baffling barometer of the state of U.S. industrial health. It had crashed in 1946 on the eve of the greatest boom in U.S. history, tumbled badly again in 1948 when the boom was at its peak. Though the market had not been able to detect a boom, it started out in the early months of 1949 to prove that it could certainly see a slump...
Visually, it was all worthwhile. Beautifully photographed in black & white, the film is encrusted with atmosphere: tapestried, frescoed splendor of vaulted palaces and chapels, lush, brocaded period costumes, sweating dungeons and stately formal gardens, misty canals, soaring mountain fortresses and the cloud-hung, peak-strewn landscapes of central Italy...