Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...took a lot of huffing and puffing, as well as some slipping and sliding, but last week the stock market reached the peak it set 21 months ago, and then climbed to an alltime high...
...election to fill John Profumo's vacant seat at Stratford-upon-Avon, a true-blue Tory constituency. The news was bad all right, though hardly disastrous. Right-wing Conservative Angus Maude won with 15,846 votes, but the party's margin dropped from its 1959 peak of 14,129 to a mere...
...Guest Artist Pat Suzuki-and inspected the 1964 models that Chrysler had providentially brought along (see U.S. BUSINESS). When the San Francisco revels ended, more were in store: shooting, riding, and fishing on a Utah dude ranch (Studebaker); a wild drive in new Galaxies up Colorado's Pikes Peak (Ford); swimming at Wisconsin's Lake Geneva (American Motors)-to mention just a few of the bashes on the schedule...
Hundreds of huge, two-trailered trucks chugged last week along the roads of Southern California, where from now until November they will shuttle constantly between ripened fields of tomatoes and bustling canneries. By season's peak, an awesome Niagara of tomatoes amounting to about 80 million lbs. weekly will be picked, stemmed, stewed and squashed, processed into juice, sauces, catsup and paste. What ever the style, most of them will bear the bright red label of Hunt Foods & Industries, Inc., the world's largest packer and distributor of tomato products and the corporate creation of a remarkable...
...kept the ex-War Minister as their M.P. if only he had not lied about his affair with Christine Keeler to the House of Commons. Stratford's most serious criticism of the government was that it had launched an irritating political diversion in the Shakespeare industry's peak season. On the other hand, most voters were probably too busy changing dollars and Deutsche marks to change parties...