Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...addition of 7,000 Screaming Eagle paratroopers was accomplished during a month-long secret airlift, largest of its kind during any war, and boosted U.S. strength to 477,200-topping the peak American force of 472,800 in Korea. More G.I.s are on the way, as Westmoreland presses to achieve a total force of 525,000 promised by President Johnson for next June, several months ahead of schedule in order to press his new offensive...
...annual snowfall-73 ft. in the winter of 1906-07. At Alta, Utah, a 5,100-ft.-long lift has been added to open up the powder-rich Albion Basin, until now accessible only by climbing on skis. Vail, Colo., has developed a whole new mountain called Golden Peak...
Most German automakers have been speeding along in reverse this year. Turned back by the country's recession, auto sales have retreated 19% from last year's peak, and exports have skidded by 14%. Yet at the Stuttgart works of Daimler-Benz A.G., where 80,000 employees are rolling out more Mercedes than ever, the industry is on overtime and in overdrive...
...would disagree with Moore that the nation's fiscal problems need attention. Yet the point at which the U.S. can no longer defend the price of gold -and thus the dollar-hardly seems near. Although the U.S.'s gold supply has fallen far from its $24.6 billion peak of 1949, the nation's gold pool partners and its creditors throughout the world are not at all anxious to bring down the present monetary system by drawing out the remaining U.S. supply. And Congress, as Moore urges, may soon expand the available supply by ending the requirement that...
...both carriers' Concordes, the Anglo-French SST that will be rolled out publicly next week in preparation for 1971 delivery. Eastern will probably also service the Boeing SST when it becomes operational in 1974. In addition, the airlines plan to get extra mileage out of their respective peak traffic seasons by leasing jumbo jets from each other. During its heavy winter runs to Florida and Mexico, for example, Eastern might use TWA planes; TWA in turn could add Eastern jumbos on its busy summertime transatlantic flights...