Word: peaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...characteristics and forces that tend to make a man a criminal, says Dr. von Hentig, are diverse and complicated. A contributing factor may be ugliness, deafness, a physical handicap. Even the time of year and day has an effect (crimes of violence and sex reach their peak in late spring; most women, are murdered between...
...such increases, and would probably tie them to production boosts. Two years ago, Dosco's miners were digging only 1.6 tons of coal per man-day (against 6.3 in the U.S.). Two weeks ago, Dosco reported that June production was up to 2.53 tons-near the prewar peak -and still rising toward a goal of 4.5 tons in 1953. Much of the increase is due to mechanization, which the miners once fought, now support...
...with black gold. It specializes in getting oil from wells that have run dry. By literally shooting out the oil with a gadget called a gun perforator, Lane-Wells has increased the yield of U.S. wells by an estimated $200 million. Last week, with demand for oil at a peak, the company was booming as never before. For five consecutive months, it has grossed more than $1,000,000 a month. With a second-quarter net of $1,143,200, Lane-Wells was earning around $6 a share, about four times its prewar rate...
...Moon. Following army spearheads the next day, the observation group visited Markos' former capital, Aetomilitsa, a typical mountain village of about 100 grey, slate-roofed stone houses nestling against the peak of Mavri Petra (Black Stone). So hasty was Markos' retreat that he left over 2,000 pounds of bread in the village ovens. All the houses in Aetomilitsa had Communist slogans painted in red. The wall of the lecture hall in the largest building, the military academy, bore the slogans, "Men Are Judged by Their Deeds" and, just below, "Long Live Markos...
...nation's taxicab business has slumped as much as 25% below the normal summer slack. Parmelee Transportation Co., biggest U.S. company, with 4,167 cabs in New York, Chicago, Pittsburgh and Minneapolis, figures that this year's net may go as low as $500,000 (its boom-peak net: $2,000,000 in 1946). For many a smaller company, trying to meet more than doubled postwar costs on prewar fares, the slump means...