Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...efforts to doctor Britain's faltering economy with doses of austerity, Prime Minister Harold Wilson has lately managed to look more like a quack dispensing dubious pills. Unemployment climbed to a 27-year peak of 559,000 last month, and that total is generally expected to reach 750,000 by winter. Industrial production has stagnated for nearly a year. Foreign-exchange earnings, the crucial source of support for the British pound, have risen, but at a disappointing rate. Under increasing critical attack both within and without his own Labor Party, Wilson last week called up a surprise reinforcement: himself...
...tireless traveler and telephoner who at his peak managed 75,000 air miles a year and $300,000 worth of telephone bills, he also kept in almost daily contact with Edgar in California, made trips to the mainland to keep an eye on his holdings. He returned ill from his last trip in June, was taken off the airplane in an ambulance, died of what was described as circulatory ailments. He fell short by 15 years of a final ambition to live...
Administration to believe that the outlook for business is undeniably bullish. ∙INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION. Like most of the indicators, once lackluster industrial production is joining the general upswing. Having slumped from its December peak of 159 (based on the 1957-59 standard of 100), the index for output in July recovered and climbed back to 156.3. Lending a helping nudge were major strike settlements in the television and rubber industries. In July there were also rises of 3.6% in mining output, 3% in electrical machinery production and 2% in auto manufacturing...
Died. Matthew R. Goodman, 20, Cornell University senior and only son of Author Paul Goodman, social philosopher (Growing Up Absurd, Compulsory Mis-Education) and unofficial saint of New Left campus movements; of injuries when he fell from a ledge on New Hampshire's North Percy Peak while on a climbing expedition...
...support rose steadily during the next 10 years and reached a peak in 1962, when CIA "conduits" gave the NSA more than $70,000, Groves added...