Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...February dropped off one point from the January record to 110% of the 1957 average, the new base year that the Federal Reserve Board is using. Industrial production in February was 167% of the old 1947-49 average. While output of business equipment and materials was maintained at peak rates, production of consumer goods declined below the record January level...
...with what he had. Somehow, Hoess did-and he is as methodically informative as a suburbanite fighting crab grass as he discusses the relative merits of poison gasses and the superiority of threeretort crematory ovens to four-retort ovens. Hoess remembers with almost nostalgic pride a date of peak efficiency when the camp gassed and cremated "rather more than 9,000" in a 24-hour period...
...Princeton's graduate school. But its recruiting setup now spans the nation; 3,000 of the 4,000 fellowships given so far have been awarded since the Ford grant. On U.S. campuses today, the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship is fast becoming a domestic version of the Rhodes Scholarship-a peak of academic distinction...
...these reasons, the Commerce Department expects it will have to wait for another month or two before any significant change in business conditions can be charted. Even if inventories reach a peak and stay there, the effects on the economy could be a long time in coming. The monthly business letter of the First National City Bank of New York pointed out that inventory accumulation in the last business cycle reached its peak in the final quarter of 1955. Yet gross national product continued to rise through the third quarter of 1957-two years longer...
Nothing in the world of sport is more ephemeral than the careers of champion girl swimmers. No sooner do the girls reach their peak at around 18 than they get interested in careers or marriage, and become bored with thrashing through a chlorine-tanged pool. But in Sydney last week, Aussie Veteran Dawn Fraser staged one of the sport's great performances. Her age: an advanced...