Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cafritz Building, just three blocks from the old State Department building where Ike made his announcement, there was a lively hum of activity as the President spoke. The staff numbered 125 workers (up from the off-year complement of 75), and was rapidly growing to its campaign peak of 300. In a large, pale-blue, partitioned-off room, young writers turned out speech kits and campaign slogans. Researchers diligently probed the records of Democratic candidates for campaign ammunition. The committee's regional traveling men slammed in and out of the office with the latest cardiograms of the public...
CRUDE OIL OUTPUT by the free world is smashing all records. Though Middle East production declined slightly in December, zooming U.S. production of 7,155,000 bbls. daily, 142,000 bbls. more than at November's peak, pushed total output to 14.4 million bbls. a day. Estimated Communist bloc production: 1,600,000 bbls...
FOOD PRICES are at their lowest in five years. On the Government's price index, the average cost of food in January tumbled 6% below the 1952 peak, with meat 22% cheaper...
...mark, in fact, was a world record. It and other such peak performances were needed to stop the Crimson, 63-21. Don't be misled by that score; the individual races were much closer...
...stated that the need for college-trained personnel, especially in the technical fields, was at a peak and that this has caused campus recruiting to become very intense...