Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...help could hardly come soon enough. The country's foreign exchange reserves, which were at a peak of $36,600,000 before sanctions were imposed last year, are down to a rock-bottom $3,800,000, and its gold stocks stand at a minuscule $3,000,000. Much of the money drain is the effect of the sanctions, but the departing Trujillo clan looted the remainder. The continuing civil strife has choked off investment; industry and commerce are hard hit, and at latest count fully one-half of the tiny republic's 2,900,000 people...
...proposed merger seems to make good economic sense. National, which does its peak business in winter, has routes running north from its Miami home base to Boston, and west through Houston to Los Angeles and San Francisco. Continental, which carries more passengers in summer, has a route system fanning out from Denver to Los Angeles and Chicago. By merging, the lines should balance out their seasonal fluctuations. And National, which lost $7,000,000 in the fiscal year ending June 30, may learn something from moneymaking Continental, which boasts the lowest break-even point in the industry...
After a tough weekend in Minnesota, the Crimson travels to Colorado Springs to meet Colorado College, another Midwestern school that has adopted what Eastern colleges consider to be the right approach to hockey. The teams will clash in the famous Broadmoor Rink, at the foot of Pikes Peak...
...addition to the techniques already described, Leacock enlarges the limits of color in photography in Eddie. At the dramatic peak, the day of the last race, the sunrise is done in color, and the small red accents of morning light seem to bleed across the screen as the movie changes from black-and-white to color. After Eddie loses the race, the color distorts the world into a fauvist painting, wild and brutally disorganized. For the final moments of disillusionment, Leacock switches back to black-and-white...
...some of the hard-core unemployment at last began to give way. Of the 3,990,000 Americans still looking for jobs, the number who had been out of work for 15 weeks or more declined last month to 1,137,000-about half the recession's April peak...