Word: slacked
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John bares his fangs in glee, and sends his truck violently into reverse, taking up the slack on the cable with vibrating power...
...that does not mean that such price reductions can come out of wages. Those who believe in the profit system must recognize that those who get the profits when business is good must bear the losses when business temporarily is slack. Those who get the profits when industry gets the volume are the ones to bear the risk of such price reductions as may be necessary to stimulate and restore volume...
...price setup. The rest of the U. S. will be put under a similar price code in a few weeks. In each of the 23 producing areas each quality and size of coal is classified according to production costs. Sizes include lump, egg, pea, nut, run-of-mine, industrial slack and stoker. Qualities range from "A" through "G" or further, depending on sulfur and ash content, b.t.u. rating, etc. Result of such complications is that the B. C. C. has had to work out 30,000 different minimum coal prices...
...refurbished Columbus sails late in December for the West Indies she will be but one of the 30-odd important vessels "cruising for the winter"-a branch of shipping that many ocean lines now consider an integral part of their business, for it keeps their ships occupied during the slack transatlantic season. The cruising business has not yet been materially affected by the present depression except for the abandonment of the sold-out Round-the-World cruise of the Bremen scheduled for February 1938-due partly to cancelations by passengers after the early autumn recessions of the U. S. stockmarket...
...Slack-jowled Baron Erik Kùle Palmstierna, 60, since 1920 Swedish Minister to the Court of St. James, let it be known he had resigned his post effective January 1. Reason: to devote full time to spiritualism, on which he has composed a book (Horizon of Immortality). London gossip said his decision was the result of mystic advice supplied him at a seance...