Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enough to permit two more of its district banks, Minneapolis and Chicago, to raise their discount rates from 1¾% to 2%. Wall Street snorted bullishly at these figures, at midweek sent Dow-Jones industrials to the year's high of 513.71, just 7.34 points off the alltime peak of April...
This exultant shout marked the emotional peak of De Gaulle's 13,000-mile, ten-day campaign trip to persuade the 40 million inhabitants of France's African empire to vote for his new constitution-and thereby accept membership in a new "community of free states" led by France. When the general left Paris the week before, it had been to the accompaniment of ominous mutterings from native political bosses in the 13 territories of French Africa...
...Lung should really be hanged." Instead of hangings, the terrorists have the offer of substantial rewards for surrendering, and for going back into the jungle to spot other guerrillas. So far, the government has paid out $165,000 in such rewards, chicken feed beside the peak $87,600,000 that the British spent one year fighting the guerrillas. Even Hor Lung had apparently found a little bribery-rumored to be $50,000-irresistible. "He is." admitted the Prime Minister, "now richer than...
...joke about the gas-eating Caddy.† Gordon likes to test his own products himself. Once, during an argument with another G.M. executive in Colorado, where the corporation has a test track, he hustled out of his hotel at 2 a.m. and test-drove a Cadillac up Pikes Peak to settle a dispute over its transmission...
...suggestion of Mrs. Ogden Reid, vice president of the New York Herald Tribune, she started "On the Record," the next year began a monthly chitchat for the Ladies' Home Journal. By World War II, she was read across the U.S. (peak circulation: some 200 papers in 1941), feared in Government circles...