Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...economy limped ahead at less than half the Common Market's rate of growth (annual average: 8%). Although at home Britons lived amid unprecedented-and inflationary-prosperity, a long series of financial crises culminated last summer in a massive, sustained flight from the pound that at its peak pumped up to $1.4 billion a month out of Britain. The government stanched the flow with heavy loans and anti-inflationary wage curbs (the "pay pause"), but the only permanent cure, economists decided, was to boost
...twin brother and I were eleven or thereabouts at the peak of the player-piano era. At home we listened to young Elman, young Heifetz and Maude Powell on the Victrola, but at Grandma's house there was a player piano. It didn't take long for our little minds to discover that by unwinding the rolls the length of the living room and entry hall and rewinding them in reverse we could achieve a definite departure from approved pianola techniques...
Auto sales, which in five of the last seven years have reached their peak in June, were slower last month than they were in May-though still 20% above the June 1961 rate...
...rush and dedication of Gene Ferkauf and his boys have not gone unnoticed on Wall Street. Investors who bought Korvette common at its 1960 high have more than tripled their money, and Ferkauf has benefited most of all because he owns 28% of the outstanding shares. From a 1960 peak of 121, Korvette soared to 57 earlier this year, slumped to 32! in the general market plunge, then recovered to last week's close of 38!, where it was selling at 26 times expected 1962 earnings...
...days with only 20 days' rations. Led by Tufts University Philosophy Professor Woodrow Wilson Sayre, 43, grandson of the late U.S. President, the amateur foursome-including a geology student, a Boston attorney, a Swiss schoolteacher-had cocksurely attempted to climb the unsealed 25,910-ft. Gyachung Kang peak without either oxygen or Sherpa guides...