Word: peakings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cabin Two began its stately ascent noiselessly and almost imperceptibly. The 18,300-lb. C-2 reached a top speed of 16.3 m.p.h. and a peak altitude of 250 ft.-providing a spectacular view of the Manhattan skyline. We touched down on R.I. after a flight of 3,134 ft. and 3½ min. Each of the Swiss-built cars carries up to 125 straphangers, at 50? a head. In case of a power failure, a huge diesel auxiliary drive system on the island can be put into action within five minutes, says the island's chief engineer, David...
More striking still is the contrast between the onetime peak and present P/Es of some individual stocks. Samples: Polaroid, a high of 114 v. 18 now; McDonald's, 81 v. 26; Xerox, 63 v. 16. At one point in 1968, IBM was selling at $701.50 a share, or 161 times earnings, giving its stock a market value equal to all the shares in all the oil companies in the U.S. Now, at $256 a share, IBM is priced at a modest 18 times profits...
...time of ready-to-wear, mass-produced clothes, the kimono of old Japan seems a fabled anachronism, like phoenix feathers. In the Edo period, for example, between the early 17th and middle 19th centuries, the art of designing and dyeing those full-sleeved, sashed garments reached its peak. Fortunes were expended on kimono by merchants and nobles, whose wives might, on formal occasions, wear 20 layers of shimmering robes. Since the 8th century they have been the stuff of poetry...
...rebound. The Common Market Commission now estimates that the output of goods and services in the nine nations of the European Community will expand by 3.5% this year, v. its decline of 2.5% in 1975. And the number of jobless workers in the Nine has fallen from a peak of 5.7 million in January to about 5.4 million...
...year-old could have managed it. The story is the stuff of convention: get some innocents (a mother and two children) captured by some baddies (in this case lunatic political terrorists) and sequestered where they are rescue-proof by conventional means (a deserted monastery on top of an isolated peak). The whole idea is to make an improbable -and cinematically novel-rescue gimmick a logical necessity, and in this the scriveners succeed...