Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hard-driving Louis and easygoing brother Dave (known to friends as "Mako" and "Spendo") now have six U.S. factories, wholly owned British and Canadian subsidiaries, and toy-manufacturing interests in Germany, France, Mexico, South Africa, Japan, Australia, and Brazil. Peak U.S. employment...
THEATER BUSINESS is good. For the first six months of the 1955-56 season, Broadway theaters have grossed $15.2 million, 16% better than the previous peak...
...m.p.h. At the point of impact, says Gold, the moon's surface rock must have been gasified at temperatures of up to 10,000,000°C. The accompanying explosions, he thinks, dug out the craters about the impact point, often leaving a small, punctured peak in the middle...
...Paso needs more gas. It already sells, on peak days, more than 2 billion cu. ft. of gas (of which it produces 200 million itself), in markets that, says Kayser, are "sopping it up like a blotter." In total assets in 1954, El Paso ranked second among gas-pipeline companies to Tennessee Gas Transmission Co. Kayser himself, in the eyes of many gas men, ranks second to none. Says a Pacific Northwest man: "If this industry, spread out the way it is and always fighting within itself, can look on any one man as its spokesman, Mr. Kayser...
Died. Louis Lachenal, 35, French mountaineer who with Maurice Herzog in 1950 scaled the 26,493-ft. Himalayan peak, Annapurna, and had to have his toes amputated; after a fall into a 120-ft. crevasse while skiing on Mont Blanc...