Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Logan, at 19,850 feet the second highest peak in North America, is part of the St. Elias Range in the Northwest corner of the Canadian Yukon. The group set out to conquer two of the mountain's three peaks--the East Peak and the main central summit...
...they never affect the whole earth in the same way at the same time. Bowen was more intrigued by the streams of meteors that the earth passes through on regular schedule. When he looked up the dates of known meteor showers, he found that they seemed to precede every peak of heavy rainfall on his charts. The prominent rain peak on Jan. 12 came 30 days after the Geminid meteor shower of Dec. 13. Other rain peaks came at about the same interval after other meteor showers. The explanation, said Bowen, was clear: meteor showers seed...
...pattern, profits are climbing about $1 for every $3 increase in the gross national product. If the G.N.P. scores its expected $10 billion gain this quarter, profits should move up $3 billion to $48.5 billion and rise even higher in the final quarter of 1961. Recalling the alltime profits peak of $50 billion in 1959, Secretary Hodges ebulliently declared: "I would not be surprised if they reached or exceeded that level some time this year...
...globulin, which holds undesirable side effects, such as fever and rash, to a minimum. The Public Health Service still must approve the new measles technique, establish manufacturing standards. If all goes well, a vaccine will be on the market next year, just as measles heads toward its next cyclical peak...
Already this year more than 50,000 cases of infectious hepatitis have been reported to the U.S. Public Health Service-more than double the number recorded a year ago, and more than the total for the entire record year of 1954. Breaking records before it even hits peak season in late fall, infectious hepatitis is mysteriously appearing and disappearing in city and hamlet, hopscotching the map in a manner that leaves epidemiologists at a loss for cogent explanation. Equally frustrated are the physicians who are trying to treat it, using gamma globulin to help prevent it. and ACTH and cortisone...