Word: slacked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coupled with the fact that car production last week was fast returning to normal after the annual slack season which this year was concentrated chiefly in September,* such figures seemed ample reason for extreme good cheer among automobile-makers. Tending their new creations in Manhattan's vast Grand Central Palace (see p. 67), makers almost unanimously anticipated their best year, pooh-poohed Wall Street talk of a major Depression. But, though this week's show in Manhattan marks completion for manufacturers of the crucial business of launching new models, to an equally important segment of the automobile industry...
Japanese editors last week taunted that wealthy Chinese have been slack in buying Liberty Bonds, caused tortoise-spectacled Chinese Loan Chairman T. V. Soong to retort: "The sale of our bonds is in pleasing contrast to the situation in Japan where 'China Incident' Bonds are being forced down the throats of bankers whose portfolios are already overladen with Government bonds, thus creating a 'Red Ink Bonds Problem' and accelerating the collapse of Japan's economic currency structure." He added that in Shanghai alone $3,000,000 had been subscribed by wealthy Chinese in blocs...
...would cost them $90,000,000 per year. The Brotherhoods claim that considerations of employe safety make it necessary. They say that hand signals cannot easily be seen from end to end of long trains, that air-brakes tend to lose their effectiveness, that there is danger from slack surges and buckling...
Since Marie's latest physicians were scientists of unimpeachable integrity, their communique did much to explode one of the wildest palace yarns to emerge in Europe since the War. The illness of Queen Marie happened to precede the expulsion of slack-chinned former Prince Nicholas from the royal family and from Rumania. Bucharest gossips, who enjoy exercising the most heated imaginations in the world, were thus encouraged to circulate the following melodrama...
...months ago, after a long hard session of work, Dr. Fishbein suffered an attack of Bell's palsy. The right side of his face hung slack as a bloodhound's jowls. Anna, his wife, "was frantic." He went to bed at once. Neurologists tickled him with electric currents, and an orthopedist stripped his face in a brace. This supported his facial muscles until the nerves recovered and took charge of muscular tone. After three and a half weeks Dr. Fishbein recovered with no residual grimace...