Word: slack
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...present, the Administration has won a victory over the automobile industry. The powers given Donald Nelson to direct the defense production effort are also proof that the slack is being taken up. But industry is still far from a smiling partner to the deal. There is no reason why the profits of war industry should be investigated twenty years from now. And there are certainly many reasons to show that price administration needs a sterner commander than Herbert Hoover...
When Japan began to build a war economy, she met her first predicament: having virtually full employment already, there was no slack for the new arms industry to take up, and it began to drain civilian goods, food and man power from her factories and farms right away. In the five years 1936-40 her standard of living fell by an estimated 40%. Industrial production, which hit its peak in 1939, has gone downhill ever since. At war with the U.S., Japan cannot increase this production. Only change likely in her dervish economy is the removal of some cotton...
Later Vance Breese really took the ship upstairs, and for the first time Designer Northrop saw his ugly duckling truly in her element. With her wheels tucked up, her humming propellers invisible, she looked like nothing more than an airborne Manta, slack-chinned, glowering through the orifices where her engines take their cooling air. Test Pilot Breese reported that she flew like any other good airplane...
Another remedy for slack discipline is more within the Army's power: a crack officers' corps-the kind the Marines and Navy have, the kind regular Army outfits had before they were diluted with citizen soldiers. In Louisiana's maneuvers its beginnings could be seen in the achievements of the engineers, in such outfits as the Armored Force and horse cavalry. It could also be seen indirectly in the low maneuver death record of the two armies (34 deaths in two weeks, three by natural causes, one suicide, the rest accidents...
...argument had ceased. Speaker Rayburn and his aides-tall, slack-jawed John McCormack of Massachusetts, the majority leader, and round-shouldered, wavy-haired Pat Boland of Pennsylvania, the whip-had done all they could. They had made frantic telephone calls to Democratic leaders in more than a dozen States, begging for additional pressure on reluctant members. Some Democratic State chairmen came to town, bringing plums and whips. In Vichy the Government had delivered itself to Hitler that afternoon. The U.S. Government had just renewed a warning to Japan. But against the bill to keep the U.S. Army under arms...