Word: peaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Founder Louis Renault was arrested as a collaborator and died awaiting trial, operates one of Europe's biggest auto plants near Paris. It is also one of Europe's most modern, completely retooled by the government. Renault is turning out 25 cars a day, expects to hit peak production of 300 later. It plans to ship 1,000 a month...
Down. U.S. exports dropped in February for the fourth successive month. The U.S. shipped $1,086,400,000 worth of goods, $4,300,000 less than in January, and 23.5% less than in the peak month of May 1947. Imports of $582,000,000 were up 7% over January...
Soon machines were shipped in, roads were snaked around Itabira's core, and test drillings were sunk into the solid heart. The peak's top 300 feet proved out as "compact hematite," red as rust and heavy to the hand-and the best ore there is. Below were huge deposits of "Canga" (54-62% iron) and soft "Itabarite" "(45-52%). After the tests, the work went ahead faster than ever. Though mechanization was by no means complete, Rio Doce was showing results. Last year, 700-odd Brazilian miners, with the help of two U.S. superintendents...
Though its use has increased fourfold in the last decade, aluminum is still far from its peak of usefulness. To push it toward the peak, Aluminum Co. of America, which produces nearly half of all U.S. aluminum, last week offered U.S. industry a shining example of how to use it as an all-purpose metal...
...Tumble. U.S. exports & imports both tumbled in January. Exports of $1,017,900,000 were 28% under the postwar peak last May. Imports of $543,700,000 were only 9% less than the postwar peak in December...