Word: slacked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...taxes and cutbacks in civilian production. The new tax bill will take still heavier bites out of profits. Example: estimated profits of U.S. Steel will be cut from $3.61 in the first six months of this year to $2.70. Moreover, defense orders will not take up the slack for many companies for a long time, nor will arms production yield anywhere near the profits of peacetime goods. Yet not even many of the bears believe that the bull market is about to end for good. The worst they expect is a shakeout to 225 or 200 in the Dow-Jones...
...airline operators, the booming passenger traffic was a welcome payoff for their heavy postwar investment in bigger, faster planes, and their patient plugging of such promotional stunts as the Air Coach and the Family Fare Plan (wives & children travel half-fare on slack midweek days). They had managed to raise their average load factor-the percentage of seats occupied-from 57% to 66.7%, reach the point where every additional traffic gain caused a bigger proportional rise in profits...
...Hepburn, all on their way to Tanganyika to film C. S. Forester's The African Queen. As the crowd met for noon cocktails and questions, Miss Hepburn jumped at the chance to get off some inside comments (which saw solemn print next day). Dressed in an oatmeal-colored slack suit and flat brown shoes, easily stealing the scene from Mrs. Bogart who wore only a black & white Paris suit, she burbled: "I've been wearing trousers for years ... I know I'm plain and scrawny. I'm tall, skinny, but very determined. I used...
...Slack your rope, Hangsaman...
...slack it for a while...