Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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David McCord, executive secretary of the Fund Council, yesterday emphasized the need for continuing support even after the 25th Reunion, especially in view of the fact that alumni are in their peak earning years between the 25th and 40th reunions...
This to be the last year of the booming, shouting, rollicking twenties, and seemingly to mark the peak of the boom, the Harvard Alumni Association chose as its president financial magnate J. Pierpont Morgan, symbolizing in a way what was often attacked as the American "worship of business." Hotels bought full page ads in the Crimson, advertising their "exclusive Fall Dansants," warning the wavering sophomore that "the smart folk will attend," or that "you'll find the best crowd in the college there." Boston was the center of Harvard social life, and for many this social life was the center...
...Aero Medical Laboratories, eager Jet Pilot Kittinger, 28, climbed into an instrument-cramped, air-conditioned gondola, was borne upward by a huge helium-filled plastic balloon as ground crews tracked his progress. Kittinger took only 80 minutes to reach the 18-mile mark, spent two hours at peak height before failure of his voice transmitter promoted safety-conscious Supervisor Stapp to order him to earth...
...newspapers had already gone under in the past seven months. Nor were dailies alone in their troubles. London's earnest left-wing Sunday Reynolds' News (516,445) was being kept alive by Labor-Cooperative Movement subsidies; Britain's biggest weekly magazine, Picture Post, which had a peak circulation of 1,750,000 in 1939, last month died of journalistic arteriosclerosis...
...Construction contracts in April dropped 9% below the year-ago level, reported F. W. Dodge Corp., yet 1957's four-month total of $10.3 billion in new contracts is just about equal to 1956's alltime peak...