Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...standard economic indicators are far from alarming. Industrial production edged up in May. reaching a record high. Nonfarm employment increased by more than the normal seasonal advance, achieved a new peak for the month of May. The average factory work week lengthened to 40.5 hours, a figure not exceeded since booming 1955. All in all said Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges after reading off a batch of statistics, "business still looks awfully good.'' Nevertheless, the New Frontier was worried...
Through the years, they were modified and improved until-at the peak of their heyday around 1923 when 205,556 were sold in the U.S. alone-player pianos could not only play loud and soft by themselves but could reproduce every nuance of shading and expression of a Paderewski or a Gershwin (both of whom sat down at a special recording piano and cut rolls on the Duo-Art label...
Free Imagination. The success of WFMT is only the most notable example of the general rise of FM broadcasting across the U.S. Developed in the '30s when AM broadcasting was at its peak, slowed by World War II, FM was almost obliterated in the postwar rush to television. The quality of FM reception is clearly superior to AM, and is almost entirely static-free. As most of AM disintegrated into rock-'n'-rollery and TV began hunting for all the lowest cultural denominators, FM became an outpost of excellence whose scope has steadily grown. In 1956 there...
Nobody went through the window, and few really went through the wringer. But the convulsion that swept the stock market cost millions of Americans dear in anticipated profits, and particularly the amateurs among "small investors" who put their money into the market at or near its peak and sold out at last week's low. Not since the dread year of 1929 had trading been so heavy (average daily volume: 10,000,000 shares) or the ticker tape lagged so late. Before the week was over, delays of an hour or more in the tape became routine...
...shares changed hands in the final 30 minutes of trading, and the last transaction did not clear the ticker tape until 2½ hours after closing. In the second bleakest day in Wall Street's history, the Dow-Jones industrial index plunged 34.95 to 576.93-21% below its peak of last December...