Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...summer afternoon in 1963, a teen-age couple boarded a ski lift to sur vey the view from a peak in New York's Catskill Mountains. After lingering on the mountaintop at the Belleayre Ski Center, 16-year-old Ruth Fried man and her 19-year-old companion, Jack Katz, decided to return. Partway down, the lift suddenly rumbled to a halt. The attendant had presumably closed the lift for the day, and no one heard the couple's shouts...
...wealth rests not only on a huge industrial base but it also derives from the greatest inventory of scientific knowledge ever accumulated. Starting from a modest $74 million in 1940, the Federal Government steadily expanded its subsidy of scientific research and development to a peak of $16.7 billion in 1967. Though since cut back because of the Viet Nam war, this investment has added enormously to U.S. resources. In the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine and physiology, Americans have won 31 out of 63 Nobel prizes. Among the discoveries in pure science attributed to American scholars in the last decade...
...above is a three-dimensional picture in two dimensions showing the relative population density of the U.S North Atlantic coast. That peak in the middle is New York City, with Washington on the left and Boston on the right. Also shown are Cape Cod, Chesapeake Bay, the mouth of the Delaware River, and the Long Island Sound (population zero...
...York Stock Exchange, the Dow-Jones industrial average sank for the fourth straight week. A 26-point loss reduced the average to 925, wiping out all its gains since mid-September. From its early December peak, the Dow has slipped 60 points, or 6%. Brokers generally see little on the economic horizon to provide much cheer...
...York Stock Exchange, the Dow-Jones industrial average, which reached a 1968 peak of 985.21 on Dec. 3, fell to 943.75 at year's end. Despite a rebound when trading resumed after the New Year holiday, the average lost ground for the week, closing...