Word: slacked
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Filene's in Boston installed three "Slack Bars." Detroit's J. L. Hudson was forced to open a Trouser Shop for Women. In Chicago, Marshall Field's, The Fair, and Goldblatt Bros, (seven stores) reported trouser sales from five to ten times greater than last year's, and zooming all the time. Countrywide sales average 500% over all previous records...
...when the last bewildered rookie rolls off the train with his lumpy duffel bag, the division is born. Under the barking of the noncoms it grows from infancy to gangling, slack-kneed adolescence. It marches, shoots, gets wet in the field, straightens its legs, grows hard and smart. If its officers and noncoms are on the job, it finally grows up; its rookies become soldiers in less than a year. And each new division knows that many of the outfits on Bataan Peninsula had no longer a time to grow before they had to prove that they had come...
...stock of natural resources to use up before inflation could show its ugly head. The government did most of the financing then, and raised money by selling securities and expanding the credit system. The U. S. paid for war goods out of a rise in national income. Now the slack in men and materials has been used up, and any further stretching of the credit system would send prices bolting to the skies. We are entering into a second period in the national defense effort: a stage of curtailed consumption and deferred purchasing power...
...eyes to Washington, Australia has nevertheless bent her back to the Empire effort, making guns, mortars, howitzers, shells, planes, engines, parachutes, corvettes and destroyers in quantity surprising for a wool-growing country of 7,000,000. Yet, as always when the storm breaks at home, there was still more slack to be taken up, and Australia gave a mighty heave...
...January, which is usually the slack month of the year, the shop was able to sell as many bikes as had been sold in the preceding six months, but now very few new machines can be obtained to replenish the stock as it is depleted...