Word: peaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fiscal '47, the President proposed to spend $35,860,000,000. This was far below 1945's wartime peak of $100 billion, well below 1946's $67 billion. But it was still far above anything dreamed of in prewar years...
General Dwight D. Eisenhower, whose name had just been given to a mountain in Canada (TIME, Jan. 21), was presented with the chance of a conversationalist's lifetime by Senator Edwin C. Johnson, who told him Colorado hoped to honor him the same way. "You have Pikes Peak now," said the General, fielding the opportunity one-handed, "and you want Ike's Peak...
...feeling very happy," said a U.S. Public Health Service official last week, "about the influenza." This winter's epidemic has passed its peak...
...Chairman Paul Hoffman totted up CED's cheery figures: 1) 52,000,000 workers already employed in civilian jobs; 2) steadily rising earnings, only slightly below the wartime peak; 3) production of civilian goods up from 50% to 75% since July...
Some of CED's conclusions were open to argument; union labor would not agree that its earnings are only "slightly below" the war's peak. But few would quarrel with Chairman Hoffman's conclusion that the problem is no longer how to achieve full employment. The question now is: how can it be maintained...