Word: slacked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leaning from the control car Lieut.-Commander Herbert V. ("Doc") Wiley, executive officer, who looks astonishingly like Herbert Hoover, speaks into a microphone leading to loudspeakers on the mooring-mast: "Everybody weigh off!" The ground crew of 250 slack their lines a trifle that officers may gauge the vessel's trim. Water ballast spills out here and there until the big ship rides evenly. Then from Commander Wiley: "Stand by to up ship!"-and his work for the moment is over. Within the control car he motions to his skipper, Lieut.-Commander Charles Emery ("Rosie") Rosendahl, that...
...Spangled Banner" and, as the last note whispered through the cavernous dock, Mrs. Hoover would yank the ribbon, opening the little hatch, tumbling out Frank Eisentrout's 48 astonished pigeons. Then it would be Zeno Wicks's moment to give the signal "up ship!" The workmen would slack off the mooring tackle and up would go the Akron about five feet clear of her metal supports, to hover for a few moments until another signal brought her down again...
...from Walter Evans Edge, the asparagus-loving U. S. Ambassador to France. Before breakfast each morning to the house comes H. C. Langmak, physical trainer, to box, skip rope, do setting up exercises with Mr. Mills before he hustles away to his office by 9:15 a. m. In slack times the Undersecretary slips out to Burning Tree Club where he plays an 85-10-90 game of golf. In Manhattan the Mills home is just off Fifth Avenue on 6gth Street. There is also a Newport villa. Two chauffeurs are kept busy with four cars, one of them...
...stern sense of duty that makes it possible for his readers to peruse their favorite column this morning (courtesy of the Vagabond). He was many miles away, in the hither-flung regions of New Hampshire, to be exact, and was engrossed in taking a vacation. Business was a bit slack, so he wired his old friend, Dr. Hu Flung Huey, the able prognosticator, to come out of his mysterious retreat.... its whereabouts are known only to the Vagabond, his boon companion.... and off they went to the upper reaches of the White Mountains...
...General to see what economies the postal service could stand. This year's postal deficit will be around $140,000,000. Considered were proposals to increase the first-class postage rate from 2? to 2½?, cut down on the subsidies for air and ocean mail. Because of slack business the Post Office Department this year will spend $38,000,000 less than Congress appropriated for it. Small economies next year are to save $15,000,000 more...