Word: peaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Apparently Houston needs and likes and can keep its businessman-showman mayor. "I ought to quit," Holcombe said after last week's election. "I'm at my highest peak ever. You can't stay there, but I don't think there's much chance of my quitting. I love this...
...window display appears to hit a new peak each Christmas. Nowadays the best windows are as craftily arranged and lighted, and almost as convincing, as scenes from a play. "It could be great art," one of the best of its practitioners insisted last week. "It ain't, but it could be. I look forward to the day when we'll have nothing but display on the main floor. Then we can really create atmosphere, using everything-fire, water, why, we could even blow up a hurricane...
...layoffs were still small enough to have little effect in an economy where production and national income were still at peak levels. But it did underline a fact which many had forgotten. In a buyers' market, labor, too, is a commodity which has to work harder for its dollar...
Steel. Steel production hit an alltime weekly high at 100.1% of rated capacity.* Production at 1,804,300 tons was 13,000 tons higher than in the week of April 24, 1944, the wartime peak...
Geddes spent 30 years building a huge organization (2,200 employees at the peak) that turned out everything from costume designs for circus elephants to General Motors' famed Futurama exhibit at the New York World's Fair. Geddes also designed more than 200 musical comedies, operas, and straight dramatic productions, and produced some first-rate hits (e.g., Dead End). The overhead ($884,000 a year) and high blood pressure forced him to shut up shop in 1946, and later take to his bed for six months. When he got up, he started again (at 55) with a staff...