Word: peak
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...lean years that followed, Miss Roche wheedled concessions out of other R.M.F. stockholders, staved off bankruptcy with loans from eastern friends (among them UNRRA Director Herbert H. Lehman). She went on paying the highest mine wages in the state, sent most of her salary ($12,000 at the peak) back into the business. Though most fellow Denverites thought her wealthy, she lived in a two-room walkup-except during 1934-37; when she was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury...
Hingham's 277th and last hull, the fast destroyer transport Francovich, left the ways last month. By mid-August the yard will be through. Last week most of its heavy machinery was gone, and so were most of its people: from a peak of 23,882, employment had dropped to 4,959. Soon only a caretaking staff would be left...
...eight years since he started climbing up the Yankee chain, Tommy Holmes had worked hard to reach his present peak. As a pesky wrist-hitter, who specialized in poking the ball to left field (mostly singles), he had a five-year average of .329 with Norfolk, Binghamton and Newark. Then the Yankees sold him to Boston. There he learned to pull the ball, spent hours trying to hit a roll of tarpaulin along the right field foul line. When the right-field fence at Braves Field was shortened, he learned to, swing for distance...
...peak (last winter), an estimated 80% of Occupied Europe's listeners tuned in on ABSIE. Last week, when the job was finally finished, many rated ABSIE's 14-month career as perhaps the brightest feather...
Cold France. In France, which normally imported two-fifths of its coal, the shortage is Europe's worst. During the occupation, the Nazis kept the French output at a peak of 42,000,000 tons a year by wooing the miners with double food rations. The French Government tried the same stunt but failed to deliver the food. Result: absenteeism in the mines soared...