Word: peaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...monthly report on the "short interest"-i.e., the number of shares sold short against an anticipated decline. By mid-May, the short interest had risen 130,058 in a month to 1,628,551 shares, the biggest total since the bank panic of February 1933, when it reached a peak of 1,894,632 shares (but far below the record high...
...Western powers, on their way to the pink palace, were in top fighting form. They could point to a united Western Europe whose people, American observers believed, were now better off than at any time since 1914 (excepting a few short years of peak prosperity). That was perhaps the West's biggest asset. Wrote London's clear-eyed Economist: "If the victory at Berlin proves anything, it is that the way to deal with the Russians is to make stiff terms and to stick to them inflexibly . . . Firmness is now justified up to the hilt...
...upturn to check the recession. So far, no sizable upturn had come. Instead, production in April (as measured by the Federal Reserve index based on the 1935-39 average) had tumbled another 5 points to 179. The index stood a full 16 points below last November's postwar peak of 195. This was the sharpest five-month drop since the 1945 reconversion shakeout after...
Weight is not overly important to Tom, although rough weather favors the heavy crew. As for age, Bolles feels that an oarsman hits his physical peak in his early to mid twenties, although the presence of 18-year-old Ted Anderson in this year's shell proves that this rule is like-wise inflexible...
Such price-cutting near the peak of summer buying had not been heard of in years. But sales were still under last year's. Retailers were hastily trying to clear out old merchandise, notably textiles, as new, lower-priced dresses reflecting the wholesale price cuts of the past few months came in. For the first time in seven years, women could buy neat, fashionable dresses for less than...