Word: peaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sidewalk farmers, who suppose that a ridgeling is the peak in a barn roof and a freemartin a species of swallow,*some of Gus's outbuildings and his hog runs might well give the jimjams. But Gus and Dale Kuester are among the best and most prosperous of Cass County farmers. Gus's homely barns and sheds are decisive outworks in the battle for food...
...reading but represent hardly a trickle of the national spending power waiting to burst out of the temporary confines of banks and bonds. When the new Price Control Act requires that ceilings on any item whose production for "a 12 month period is equal to its production for the peak year, July 1940 to June 1941" be lifted, economic dynamite is being held too near the flame. Today's goods-hungry consumers could snap up total 1941 production in a month, leaving thousands unsatisfied. All-out bidding would begin, and-before production could catch demand-prices, costs, and wages would...
...response to "the greatest pressure ever put on American colleges," Dean Buck yesterday estimated that the College enrollment would reach 3000 for the coming summer term, and hit a peak of possibly 5800 in the fall, 2300 above what he termed the "desirable" level...
...presiding officer was neither shocked nor carried away by the incendiary speeches. Mohamed Ali Jinnah, clad in black angora cap, a long black sherwani (tunic), and tight-fitting black churidar on his wire-thin legs, smiled his ice-cold smile. He was at the peak of his power. He was the man who might say whether one-fifth of the world's people would be free. His 5 ft. 11 in. and 119 Ibs. stood between India and independence...
June 27, 1936. The New Deal was nearing full tide, and Roosevelt stood close to his popularity peak when, in an assured voice that had mellowed since 1933, he said: "This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny...