Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Faced with the task of making his voice heard over the thunder of events in the Middle East and Hungary, he lashed out with mounting violence against the President and his Administration. The at tack reached its peak on the day before the election in Minneapolis and again that night in Boston. Harshly, he charged that Dwight Eisenhower neither knows nor cares what goes on about him in Washington, that he "holds forth in the pulpit while his choirboys sneak around back alleys with sandbags." He described Richard Nixon's campaign role as that...
...touch as many states as possible, a second to concentrate on the weak spots, a third to work intensively in important and crucial areas. Convinced that the Democrats had started their campaign too early, Nixon decided to wait until mid-September, aim his campaign to reach its peak in the latter half of October, then sustain the high pitch right up to election day. With the geography and the basic strategy settled, he gathered a staff of aides-most of them tested in the "Nixon Fund" days of the 1952 campaign-and directed them by his personal example of efficiency...
...taking over the Guardian's leather-and.-mahogany sanctum, Scotsman Hetherington will find the paper at the peak of its power. In his twelve-year regime, a short one as Guardian editors go, Wadsworth trebled circulation (to 167,000) and challenged the London Times in the influence of its editorial voice. He swept the clutter of classified ads off the front page, launched an international weekly airmail edition (circ. 37,744), watched advertising and circulation spread to make the Guardian Britain's only national daily published outside London...
...their growing worries. With employment at a record 66 million, the competition for manpower from expanding industry has pushed wages so high that manufacturing costs are rapidly outstripping the gains from new, more efficient plants. In the last twelve months, overall industrial prices have jumped about 4%, to a peak 123 (1947-49 = 100). "It's as if we all sat down together-which we didn't-and decided to raise prices," says one appliance-company executive. "It's that old, old, devil inflation. Starting with the steel price rise, a spiral has started throughout industry...
Part of the trouble is that production, already at a peak 144% of the 1947-49 index, is increasingly hard put to supply the insatiable demand for goods and services. On top of that, the enormous expansion programs for virtually every U.S. industry may stretch the economy even thinner next year. After pouring some $29 billion into new investment in 1955, U.S. business expanded at the rate of $36 billion in 1956's first half, about 25% faster than last year...