Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...East German aircraft industry was a prestige project ramrodded through in 1954 by Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht himself. Jeering at West German airlines for buying foreign planes, the East Germans poured $150 million into outfitting six plants, which at their peak employed some 26,000 workers turning out Russian null In 1959, with much fanfare, the East Germans brought out their new, home-grown 66-152 turbojet airliner. The first 86-152 prototype crashed on its maiden flight-a disaster that was officially attributed to "sabotage" by Designer Manfred Gerlach (TIME, Sept. 12). While other engineers have been trying...
...thing, he was so anxious to please Victoria's consort, the German Prince Albert, that his paintings took on the dead, glassy surface favored by the Germans. From then on, everything about his work degenerated. His famous Monarch of the Glen-a postcard stag perched upon an improbable peak-was painted for the refreshment room of the House of Lords, but Commons, in its homely wisdom, never got around to voting the money. His Dignity and Impudence is a coyly saccharine affair showing a drooping bloodhound trying to be oblivious to a cocky terrier sharing his kennel. And when...
...start of a full recovery? Stock market investors clearly believe that a full recovery is ready to get under way. In brisk and broad trading, the market gained 12.92 points on the Dow-Jones industrial average, closed the week at 676.48, only nine points below its alltime peak...
...private investment in Western Europe rose by 36% during the first nine months of 1960, new U.S. private investment* in Latin America for all of 1960 is estimated at less than half of what the U.S. invested during 1959, only about one-sixth of what it ventured in the peak year of 1957 (see chart...
...discussion of Brecht must actually concern itself with the practicing playwright, and I will attempt to discuss The Caucasian Chalk Circle in relation to Brecht's broader accomplishment. This play enjoyed a successful run at the University last fall, and in the volume under discussion, represents to Bentley a peak of the author's accomplishment...