Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sinclair Oil reached peak earnings of $26.5 million, and Occidental earnings rose a big 125% to $15.2 million...
...which they appear. The researchers must know the best source for an existing picture and how to spot the right photographer in the right place for the right subject. They have a sharp eye for early-stage picture editing-a talent that, as anyone might guess, rose to a peak when they helped the editors select pictures of themselves for use on this page this week...
...addition, deep in the Laotian hillsides Giap placed Russian-made 152-mm. cannons, their long tubes zeroed in on besieged Marines. Altogether, Hanoi's gunners poured more explosives into Khe Sanh than they had into Dienbienphu, reaching a peak on Feb. 23, when 1,300 rounds slammed into the U.S. base. And, as in 1954, the North Vietnamese by night tunneled ever closer to the Marine perimeter, drawing the net of fortified attack positions ever tighter. In terms of firepower and supplies, the Communists were better prepared to strike at Khe Sanh than they ever had been at Dienbienphu...
Hard Lessons. Not all broadcasters were that responsible. As troops moved into Washington, radio and TV newsmen reported that "tanks" were rumbling down New Hampshire Avenue, when in fact they were simply personnel carriers. More recklessly, at the peak of the riot scare, rock-'n'-roll station WABC in Manhattan broadcast on-the-street interviews with Harlem agitators. Cried one: "We were planning to burn down your part of town anyway, but now we can take the whole thing this summer! I want to kill anybody I know who is against anything that's good...
...trading tapered off Thursday and Friday, but even so, the week's volume reached an alltime peak of 78,475,620 shares, topping a record of 65,948J60 shares set last Jan. 12. Despite a 6.71-point dip on Friday, the Dow-Jones industrials climbed 25.14 points during the week to 865.81. Investors bought heavily in automobiles, office equipment, savings and loans, electronics and glamour issues. Panicky speculators rushing to buy shares they had sold short in anticipation of falling prices accounted for some of the week's rush. More important, said brokers, mutual funds moved into...