Word: sagging
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...scientists, the turning point of World War II was March 20, 1943. That was the day that U-boat sinkings began to sag like a beaten fighter. Bigger and bloodier battles have since been-and are yet to be-fought, but, in the scientists' log, none more decisive. And no one knows better than they how close the United Nations came to losing the crucial Battle of the Atlantic...
...with a sag: A girl with a bad figure...
...were delivered by U.S. yards in October. This was twelve ships under the record September output, leaves shipbuilders with the nearly impossible task of producing two million tons more by year's end if they are to achieve their goal of eight million tons in 1942. Explaining the sag in October output, the Maritime Commission laid the cause to "diversion of a considerable amount of the merchant shipbuilding capacity to emergency construction of special craft for the armed forces...
...Sears, Roebuck vice president now under fire for failing to be Production Boss in fact as well as in title. He had gone away dog-tired, his nerves deckle-edged, and almost willing to give in and give up. Now the weary wrinkles had left his brown eyes; the sag was gone from his padded cheeks; he was as fighting mad as a peaceable man can get. His friends in WPB passed word around: a new Nelson had returned for a fight to the finish...
...even that situation would be economic ambrosia compared to the potion we would have to swallow when the war is over and the government expenditures sag from something over fifty billions of dollars to a meagre ten billion. The big post-war problem will be filling in that forty billion dollar gap. Unless there is enough private investment and consumer spending to fill it in, we will experience a gum-shoe stagnation that will make 1929 look like prosperity without the corner. We won't be able to fill it in unless new outlets for investment are opened...