Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...work begins when Mrs. Campbell was at the peak of her career and Shaw a merely notorious pamphleteer. Act I contains the story of Shaw's plea to Mrs. Campbell to take the role of Liza in Pygmalion, her frightful automobile accident (which she thought had ended her career), and the final triumph of the opening night. In this act, Kilty turned his play into a play about a play and slipped in and out of actual rehearsals of scenes from Pygmalion...
Wilson's latest cutbacks, putting U.S. military manpower at 22% under the 1953 Korean war peak, mostly reflected an increasingly painful Pentagon budget squeeze, in turn caused by the spiraling costs of missile research and development, of complex new electronic devices, of materials and labor generally. Early this spring, Defense spending flew embarrassingly out of hand, promised to exceed...
...Ralph J. Cordiner came news of first-half profits of $127.8 million, the highest of any half year in G.E.'s history, a sales gain of 8% to $2.1 billion. International Business Machines' President Thomas J. Watson Jr. announced quarterly earnings of $21.3 million for another alltime peak, and more than the company's total annual revenues 25 years ago. Du Pont, Douglas Aircraft Co., Revlon, Mack Trucks and Schering Corp. were all at new highs, while Kaiser Steel Corp., American Cyanamid Co. and Radio Corp. of America showed solid six-month sales and earnings gains over...
MEAT PRICES, which accounted for 20% of cost-of-living index boost since December, will stay high for another year. Livestock herds are low, will not reach another cyclical peak until...
...EMPLOYMENT hit 66.5 million last month, a new peak for June and just a shade below last summer's alltime record of 66.8 million...