Word: slacked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Commerce, "the uninterrupted [business] expansion of more than a year was halted." The Bureau of Labor Statistics noted "several soft spots which will bear watching." Employment had begun to fall off slightly in the consumer soft-goods industries. Construction, which had been relied on to take up the slack, was one-sixth less in March than it had been in 1946. For the third consecutive month, new construction was under the corresponding 1946 figure...
...Havana, the slack tourist season was a headache. At a big Communist-sponsored photo display of life in the Soviet Union, a bomb went off. Black-marketers were annoyed by a general strike against them. But for U.S. housewives the news was sweet: Cuba's biggest sugar crop since shortly after World War I (an estimated 5,800,000 tons) is boiling in the refinery tanks; the U.S. will get approximately 5,000,000 tons of it. For Cubans the good news is that the sugar will bring almost 5? a pound (as compared with last year...
...country will continue to search about for a solution to the problem of intellectual inbreeding at the top levels of Education. 1946 has not brought the answer, and while the last wave of veterans surges through the colleges, planners look to broad scholarship programs to take up the slack left by loose planning. Scholarships, too, are a stopgap measure compared to federal aid. But scholarships succeed in bringing leadership to the colleges, whereas Mr. Conant's two-year plan could do little but stunt and discourage this very leadership...
...products, with their lower labor costs will force our industries to cut costs and employment." Here the facts stand against them. The quantity of imports to the United States has almost directly correlated with the level of production and business at home. During boom years imports increased, and during slack years, they fell. Above all, the imports of most items have been an insignificant percentage of American consumption of that item. Woolen and worsted imports, for example, have never amounted to 2% of total U. S. consumption, and yet, the American woolen industry is strenuously opposing any tariff rate reductions...
...left. "It's hell being your own master," he says. "You work a 40-hour day instead of a 40-hour week." His pretty blonde wife, Esther-he calls her Bunny-brings the coffee, gets the meals and keeps guests from gumming up the production line. Slim, slack-clad Bunny Caniff doesn't have much to say when her talkative husband has visitors. Says she: "I'm afraid people will miss something Milt is saying...