Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leaders were aircraft companies and steel. On the New York Stock Exchange, U.S. Steel, Jones & Laughlin, Republic Steel, Crucible Steel and Allegheny Ludlum sold at new highs as mills pushed up to 98% of capacity and the backlog of steel orders assured peak operations for months to come...
ADVERTISING VOLUME will smash all records in 1956, predicts Printers' Ink. With all media ex cept radio showing big increases, total volume should top $10 billion this year for $800 million jump over 1955's previous peak of $9.2 billion...
...price of a pound of quality coffee in U.S. grocery stores edged up last week past $1.15 - only 15? short of 1954's peak price and a fat 26? higher than 1955'$ low. This time around, the trail of cause and effect appeared to lead straight back to shrewd Manuel Mejia, czar of the Colombian Federation of Coffeegrowers...
...types, now totals $232 billion, up 40% in five years. Mortgage debt, which had been climbing steadily by $10 billion a year since 1949, spurted ahead $16.2 billion in 1955; despite the decline in homebuilding, mortgages on nonfarm, one-to-four-family housing reached a $94.2 billion peak in June, are still mounting at an estimated annual rate of $12 billion...
...Generation. Such overoptimism worries many observers even more than rising credit. While the rate of repayment on installment loans continues at a peak, they point out, a sharp dip in employment might bring on a wave of defaults that could wash in a recession-or worse...