Word: slacked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...McCarran clauses. For example, it recognizes the fact that separate quotas for each country have resulted in actual immigration of only half the number the overall quota allows. Countries like England have larger quotas than prospective immigrants. The Humphrey-Lehman bill, suggest "pooling" these quotas, so that the slack of countries like England can be taken up by Italy or Greece, where prospective immigrants now peer hopelessly in the windows of the Immigration Service buildings. It also leaves room for citizens of Iron Curtain countries who have been persecuted for non-Communist beliefs, in the belief that those who have...
Actually, the market was only reflecting the uncertainty of large segments of U.S. business. For months, economists had been forecasting a slowdown in the first and second quarters, when civilian output would be deeply cut before arms orders could fill the slack. But the slowdown seemed a little worse than expected. The cotton and wool industries were in the doldrums; the rayon industry was in the first real depression in its history. New steel capacity would soon be coming in at the rate of about 1,000,000 tons a month, and there was talk that the shortage of some...
Though the plot is thick, the characterizations are thin, and the film as a whole is slack as well as slick. The cast provides some flashy playacting, notably by Bette Davis as a bedridden paralytic...
...other industries last week the signs were of deflation. Because arms production has not yet taken up the slack created by cutbacks in civilian goods, total U.S. output was estimated to have dipped in January, a trend started in December...
...being sued by Masters for refusing to supply it. But most big manufacturers and distributors look the other way because discount houses move big volumes of goods rapidly. Said a big Westinghouse Electric jobber: "Some of these stores are necessary for our business because they keep us going in slack times...