Word: peaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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British achievements in Germany have been overshadowed by their great failure: to get a Ruhr coal production anywhere near normal. Steel production is less than 20% of the prewar peak...
Most industries tended to maintain, if not raise, the dollar volume that had pushed first-half earnings to a peak. And most of the earnings were above last year's record heights. But some drops were shown by companies in such fields as food, textiles, retailing and electrical products. They were the first to feel a shift towards a buyers' market and consumers' balking at high prices. Thus, General Foods reported a third-quarter net of $4,463,255, or 5% less than in the same period last year...
...Labor Statistics reported, new highs were reached both in industrial employment (43,000,000) and industrial wages (an average $50.42 a week). The Federal Reserve Board reported that industrial production also rose three points in September to 185% of the 1935-39 average, only five points below the postwar peak in March. And the Bureau of Agricultural Economics predicted that consumers were not likely to cut down their spending...
Replacing the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences as top dog, the Law School boasts a probable current attendance of 2,131 compared with 1,899 of six months ago. The estimated Arts and Sciences 1,900 enrollment is a distinct drop from the springtime peak...
British municipal elections came in for close scrutiny with an eye to possible effects on Congressional discussion over foreign aid, it was reported yesterday. There has been considerable debate of what their opponents call "Socialistic trends" in Europe, this having reached a peak during discussion on the British loan. Congressional criticism of political trends in Western Europe has been especially directed at the British government, with allegations that it has not been able to get the people to make a maximum production effort, regardless of its political color...