Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fare among, for example, the 48 possibilities from New York to San Francisco. CAB recently allowed the carriers a slight curtailment in use plus a few small increases in "Discover America" excursion fares, which offer a 25% discount from regular round-trip coach fares but require passengers to avoid peak traffic times. And the airlines hope that this week's resignation of CAB Chairman Charles Murphy (who will join the White House staff as a consultant) may soften the board's resistance to a small (perhaps 5%) general fare increase for short hauls. The industry's profit...
There were, of course, other ways to measure the importance of Graffman's concert. Now at 39, he has slowly but persistently emerged as the top American pianist in his age group. His plat form manner is nononsense, but at the peak of his form he stirs poetry, fire and steel into whatever he plays. At a time when most younger American per formers make their loudest noise in the flashier side of the repertory -Prokofiev, Bartok, Liszt and the more extroverted Chopin - Graffman has matured into a musician able to challenge Europe's best in the more...
...money supply by 7% and bank credit by an even more inflationary 12% to make sure that the U.S. Treasury could borrow enough to cover its deficit. The appetite for cash lifted interest rates to psychedelic highs. Some new issues of corporate bonds brought nearly 7%, a 100-year peak...
Despite incomes that rose to a new peak, consumers turned surprisingly frugal and saved 7% of their after-tax cash, the highest sustained rate in a decade. Savings banks and savings and loan associations, which had been strapped for mortgage funds a year earlier, were deluged with deposits. Thus housing became the year's comeback industry, climbing from an annual rate of 1,111,000 private starts in January to 140% of that level. On the other hand, retail sales-which normally account for two-thirds of what consumers spend.-rose barely faster than consumer prices, which jumped...
...spring economic dip and a big increase in the number of teen-agers seeking work compounded one of the most vexing problems of the U.S. economy: bottom-of-the-force unemployment, especially among Negroes. Overall unemployment rose from 3.7% in January to a peak of 4.3% in October, then declined; but the jobless rate among teen-agers jumped from 11% to 14% (9.6% for whites, 22.8% for Negroes). Unable through its own machinery to cope with that and other potentially explosive social problems, Government has increasingly turned to business for help. "Government alone cannot meet and master the great social...