Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Candida, is not a great one. There is virtually no action; and the characters are on the whole rather two-dimensional. The entrances and exits are handled somewhat awkwardly; and the play's focus is not consistently clear. Ibsen had not yet reached that lofty fin-de-siecle peak that only Strindberg would eventually share with him. Nevertheless, no other play of Ibsen has so much sparkle and wit as Love's Comedy...
...stories. The A.P. alone had 35 men on the story by 7 a.m., wirephotoed its first aerial pictures of the stricken ships by 8:35 a.m., fully 90 minutes before rival United Press. Before noon, on NBC and ABC, TV audiences saw movies of the Andrea Doria. At the peak, the afternoon World-Telegram and Sun had 61 men on the story, practically its whole cityside staff, devoted its entire final-edition front page to pictures of the listing Andrea Doria and the broken-nosed Stockholm wallowing in a glassy...
...than we've ever seen before." The unleashed steel demand was piling atop an economy already operating "at a record rate, well above the same period a year ago," according to a Commerce Department survey of 1956's first half, released last week. Employment was at a peak; the demand for nondurable goods showed "little or no slackening"; the downslide in orders for durables "appears to have been arrested." Consumer purchasing, one of the economy's biggest props, had been helped by freer credit...
...boom reached a new peak in the second quarter as the gross national product soared to a record annual rate of $408.5 billion. Making that heady estimate last week, the President's Council of Economic Advisers noted a rise of $21 billion over the same period last year and $5.1 billion more than the booming first-quarter rate...
After reading a Commerce Department survey of 35,000 stores, which showed that retail sales for June soared to a record $16.6 billion, some 4% better than the June peak in 1955, a Commerce Department economist said: "The U.S. consumer is not afraid of anything...