Word: slacken
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Already some of the glamour of world wide responsibilities is fading. The United States is beginning to feel more like a father, with financial obligations and less like a gay young blade out on a fling. Only by resisting the temptation to slacken the drive for international cooperation now that fewer and fewer tangible results are forthcoming can America insure that the policy of internationalism, undertaken with such great hope is given every chance for success...
...regime still does not dare slacken the pace of its political persecution, and underground warfare is spreading; guerrillas are now equipped with better arms, including machine guns (presumably from France). More effective than sporadic warfare was last month's general strike in the crucial industrial area of Bilbao, when some 35,000 men stayed home in protest against the provincial governor's punishment of workers who had observed May Day. But there is no power in Spain today that can seriously threaten Franco's rule...
During the war the tremendous volume of rail traffic alone saved the roads' bacon, boosted revenue faster than operating costs. But last year traffic began to slacken, has fallen off so much this year that operating revenues will be 23% below 1945. In this crisis, the roads wanted the new rates effective on May 15, subject to later juggling by the Commission when more complete hearings are held. The proposed new rates would cost shippers another $625 million this year, would take the roads out of the red, give them a net income...
...influence of these placarded, shuffling men spread through the arteries of commerce. Cars lay idle along the coal and ore railroads-the Pennsy, the Bessemer & Lake Erie, the C. & O. Work would soon slacken in limestone quarries, zinc smelters, silica diggings. Barge traffic thinned as the tires were banked along the Monongahela, the Allegheny, the Ohio Rivers. Snow lay undisturbed on the great, vermilion open pits of the Mesabi Range...
...fairly real; but the man (well enough played by Walter Abel) is not convincing. Nor has Playwright van Druten sufficiently concentrated on The Mermaids Singing as a romantic duet. He has thrown in a mixed choir of nonfunctional minor characters who spoil the play's tone and slacken its tempo...