Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...City suburb, increased its population 140% between 1940 and 1954. Today the shopping center estimates: 1) a potential market of 1,300,000 (1,600,000 by 1960) inside a ten-mile radius; 2) 37,000 customers for its stores on ordinary shopping days, 57,000 on pre-Christmas peak days; 3) $80 million in gross retail sales its first operating year...
...biggest peacetime exodus from the U.S. to Europe was reaching its peak last week, there came some dollar-saving advice for the 1,250,000 tourists who will spend $2 billion abroad this year. Nicholas Deak, who heads Manhattan's Deak & Co. and Perera Co. foreign-exchange companies, said that travelers could save millions by buying their foreign currency on the U.S. free market before they leave. As it is, most travelers buy their lire, pesetas and francs abroad, where currency is often pegged at unrealistically high official rates. Travelers can beat the official rate by trading...
European automakers are doing peak business in the U.S. Although their sales are only about 1% of the U.S. total, in the first four months of this year they jumped to 24,154 v. 12,653 for the same period a year ago. Biggest increase is in the sale of Volkswagens, for which there is now a three months' wait...
...contractors group anticipated that at its 1960 peak the 41,000-mile superhighway program will employ no fewer than 900,000, half of them building, half of them producing the materials and services needed. It also predicted that by 1960 road construction will reach $8 to $9 billion a year (1956 level: about $5.1 billion). Projecting estimates of the American Road Builders' Association, an $8 billion year will call for the following amounts of basic materials for roadbuilding...
...nearly six months, peak-nosed Airman William P. (for Powell) Lear, 54, a restless, uninhibited manufacturer-inventor (Lear, Inc.), has been flying his Cessna 310 plane around Europe on a businessman's crusade. He wanted to show Europeans how simple and safe it was to fly their own planes, especially with the Lear automatic pilot, the Lear automatic direction finder and the Lear omnirange navigational system. Fortnight ago, in Hamburg, Bill Lear got an even better idea. Why not be the first postwar private flyer to go to Moscow and show off U.S. equipment...