Word: peaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the revelation that upperclassmen living in the Yard next year will be given non-resident House privileges, the House masters have at long last decided to assume their share of the College's over-crowding. It is unfortunate that the masters let this peak year slip by, when the Union was jammed as never before. Meal lines at the theoretically "freshman" enter were of magnitude that threatened to obscure the highly-important activities program, and it seemed clearly up to the Houses to take at least the exiles living in Claverly and Apley. But the Houses contented themselves with...
Police ended that riot, but still, the yelling goes on with undiminished intensity. Yesterday, things hit their peak for Altrocchi. A shoeshine gamin, strolling under his window, looked up and screeched, "Hey, Altrocchi, wanna shine...
...paper increased in value to the point where it was out of balance with the rest of the estate, the trustees were to consider selling it. They thought the Enquirer had reached that point; it made around $1,000,000 last year, and the market was probably at a peak...
...boom in farm land reached a familiar milestone. After nine years of steady climbing, said the Department of Agriculture, farmland prices had finally hit the peak reached in the post-World War I land boom. Prices rose 7% last year to 205 (1935-1939 equals 100), the 1920 top. And in 32 states, particularly in the southwest where irrigation had increased productivity, land values had long overshot their post-World War I mark...
...boom been reached? The department found some evidence that it had. In three states (Florida, California and Louisiana), land prices had begun to sag. Land values almost everywhere else were still rising, but the rate was down from 1947. Income-wise, farm land was still cheaper than at the peak of the World War I boom, as the cash yield per acre is now 59% higher...