Word: peaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seven years, as wages, prices and employment rose, the U.S. had poured forth goods and foodstuffs like a great machine being pushed to its ultimate, agonizing peak of performance. Last week the nation heard the wheels slow down a few revolutions. Though they had cursed inflation to a man, U.S. citizens had grown so used to the howl of high-speed gears that any change in pitch sounded ominously like warnings of a slowdown...
Jordan's first Harvard wrestling team started its season with easy victories over MIT and Wesleyan, reaching its peak just before the exam period break against Columbia. After Army come Dartmouth, Brown, Princeton, and Yale...
...Gordon, associate professor of Business Administration, speaking on the program with Mason, emphasized the burden ERP places on the taxpayer and declared that the Marshall Plan gives little stimulus to inflation in this country. In fact, prices began to decline in August just when ERP spending was at its peak, Gordon added...
Porter knew no real struggle until he was 45, and at the peak of success. Then he undertook a gallant and successful fight to walk again, after a Long Island horseback-riding accident left him with compound fractures of both legs. Winning this fight took 31 operations (mostly to clear up a bone infection of his right leg), years of constant pain, and a tough-minded courage that surprised his friends and impressed his physician...
Softening Spots. Further drops in the cost of living promised to ease the wage pressure still more. The average retail drop in the price of meat since last September's peak, said the National Association of Retail Meat Dealers, was estimated between 15 and 20%. Packers were keeping their fingers crossed on whether the drop would continue, but they thought that meat would be in "pretty good supply for the rest of the winter," thanks to the bumper corn crop...