Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...revamping job turned the paper into a vamp, neither Times nor tabloid-nor Trib. By then the smallest of Manhattan's seven major dailies, the Herald Tribune earned the additional distinction of being the only morning paper that had a substantial weekday circulation drop: from a 1955 peak of 387,276 to 367,248 this year. And despite such costly come-ons as a handy pocket-size TV supplement (editor: Hy Gardner) and a staff-produced feature magazine, Sunday circulation slipped from 596,308 in early 1956 to 576,488 in 1957; since 1946 it had dropped...
FARM INCOMES are rising steadily. With farm assets at an alltime peak (TIME, Sept. 9), index of farmers' prices jumped 1% in August-the sixth straight monthly rise-to reach highest level in three years...
Construction edged up to peak levels. Last month's $4.6 billion worth of new building set an alltime record. The Government reported that spending for new plants and equipment for the rest of 1957 will continue with no letup at a steady annual rate of $37 billion, 6% ahead of last year...
Trajalgar, when it came, was an act of Napoleonic desperation-a sort of exasperated suicide. Napoleon's invasion concentration, the work of years, had reached its peak point: it must be used or broken up. Ready to go, by Historian Maine's account, was "the fantastic total of 2,343 vessels, capable of transporting 167-590 men and 9,149 horses." It was to guard these that Napoleon sent his fatal order to Admiral Villeneuve, then in port in Spain, just above Gibraltar: "Wherever you find the enemy in inferior strength you will attack him without hesitation." Against...
They met soon after dawn Oct. 20, 1805. A "series of single combats of the most bloody ferocity," the battle reached its peak when ship jammed against ship, exchanging furious broadsides and grapeshot at point-blank range, with boarding parties hanging massed along the bulwark netting. The rigging of the French ships swarmed with grenadiers and sharpshooters-and it was one of these, alongside Nelson's flagship Victory, who, recognizing the great captain dressed in "a blaze of colour," took aim and mortally wounded him with a single shot. Nonetheless, by midafternoon the Franco-Spanish line had ceased...