Word: slacked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Slack. Not so calm, however, were the traders in the nation's futures markets, who saw higher prices ahead. For two straight days on Manhattan's Commodity Exchange, the price of rubber soared the permissible daily limit of 2$ a lb. Though Washington officials denied any plans to speed up buying for the Government stockpile (now only about 40% complete), commodity men did not believe them: up also went the futures prices of grains, copper, lead, tin and zinc. In five days, the Dow-Jones index of all futures prices rose 3.95 points to 150.48, highest close since...
...Korean war would cause heavier defense spending-and there seemed little doubt that it would-the big question was: How much more spending could an uncontrolled economy stand without serious inflation? There was now little overall slack in the economy. The Federal Reserve Board's index of industrial production for June was estimated to be equal to the record peacetime high. Steelmakers had been operating at better than 100% of their theoretical capacity for eleven straight weeks-and had not yet caught up with demand. Automakers and many another consumer-goods manufacturer were running months behind in their deliveries...
While studying theology he continued to work in the bar, where his good will and cheerfulness made him a favorite with the deputies. When work was slack, he boned up on his theology among the bottles, disguising the books with the dust jackets of cheap novels...
...Amtorg Trading Corp. employee named Semen M. Semenov was Gold's first boss; after being handed the RDX sample, he told the Philadelphian to forget Slack for "a very important assignment"-getting atomic information from Fuchs. From then on, Gold had reported to Anatoli Antonovich Yakovlev, Soviet vice consul in New York...
Talebearers. The arrest of Family Man Slack was quickly followed by that of another husband & father, a 28-year-old machinist from New York's East Side named David Greenglass. Plump, wavy-haired Machinist Greenglass made no bones about the fact that he had been considering either running away or committing suicide ever since he had read the chill news of Gold's arrest. The FBI discussed his case even more tersely than that of Slack-he had joined the Young Communist League in 1938, had been sent to the Los Alamos atomic project as a machinist while...