Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Half the Korean peak (80,000), one-tenth World War IIs highest level. † Other countries with major U.S. Army units: West Germany 225,000, South Korea 50,000, France 16,000, Dominican Republic 7,000, Italy 5,000, Japan...
Part of their unique appeal is that among the Royal Danes, the male dancers are the stars. Last week they had on display a veteran at the peak of his powers and a young contender just coming into...
...either to hotel or planeside. Jacobson's department store of Grosse Pointe, Mich., serves Saturday tea on the theory that shoppers are exhausted by week's end and welcome such a break. The Denver Dry Goods Co. requires its buyers to remain on the sales floors during peak hours, both to keep salespeople alert and to help customers with shopping problems. Sears, Roebuck reminds its repairmen to shine their shoes, and Chicago's Polk Bros, requires its delivery men to remove shoes before walking over fancy wall-to-wall carpeting...
Even before the blackouts, sales of stand-by generators to utilities had been rising-but gradually. Now, says Admiral Albert G. Mumma, executive vice president of Worthington Corp., a producer of auxiliary generators: "The immediate market for peak power has nearly doubled in importance." For one thing, the Federal Aviation Authority is urging airports, whose lack of standby power in the Northeast blackout shocked everyone, to put in emergency systems for landing lights and radar. Moreover, the Northeast blackout taught utilities the value of auxiliary units not only for partial power when a big generator conks...
...Whitney stand-by jet when the blackout hit, two minutes later had full power. Hartford, Conn., also stayed aglow with emergency jet power. A week after the blackout, New Jersey's Public Service Electric & Gas Co. began using an eight-jet system that provides 121,000 kw. for peak loads and emergency power...