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...Whose Peak...
...article about Lieut. Zebulon Montgomery Pike [TIME, May 10], you state: "Pike predicted that the summit would never be reached by man. But 14 years later it was scaled (by someone else); in 1835 it was recorded on a map as Pikes Peak...
...explore the country from the Missouri westward to the Rocky Mountains to the source of the River Platte and thence by way of the Arkansas and Red Rivers to the Mississippi. Dr. James became botanist, geologist and surgeon . . . They were particularly desirous of visiting what Pike called the highest peak of the mountains, which now bears the name of that distinguished explorer and soldier. Its summit had been reported inaccessible. A detachment of the party, however, conducted by Dr. James, went to the top on the 13th and 14th of July, 1820. From this circumstance it was called James...
...economy seemed to warrant the rise. Overall profits were well up from last year's record peak. U.S. industrial production, which had slipped a bit during the spring, was climbing again. Backlogs of orders were building up in some industries faster than production could consume them. And U.S. employment, now soaring above 58,000,000, was expected to be greater than ever by midsummer...
Most of Wall Street's 1,200 market dopesters and crystal ballers felt a rosy glow. Some expected a rise of 20 points more or less, which would put the industrial average even with the peak of the 1946 bull market. Others, like Shields & Co.'s Edmund W. Tabell, were more optimistic. Said he: "My ultimate objective [for the average...