Word: slackly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...held between a thumb and forefinger when their tips rub gently against each other is thicker than the film of glass with which Westinghouse Lamp Co. is sealing certain of its vacuum tubes. That glass is one five-thousandth of an inch thick. Last week Dr. Charles Morse Slack, the company's research physicist, received its annual $500 award for accomplishing the thin sealing...
...Kept in stand-by condition by Army Engineers at a cost of $67,000 per year, Muscle Shoals has lately been bringing the U. S. $250,000 per year from the slack production and sale of power...
...Philadelphia: "The wage earner has the same right to security of employment that the stockholder has to the security of dividend payments . . . Just as reserves are accumulated to secure dividends, there should also be guarantees that part of these reserves would be set aside to protect the worker in slack times. . . . Wage payments in industry in the first half of 1930 were below 1929 by $707,000,000 while dividend payments increased over...
...engined fishing vessels which are becoming very numerous." Of Greenland's trade the Prime Minister said cautiously: "It is well to wait and see how the country develops. The seal industry which was once very prosperous is declining, but expansion of the fishing industry is taking up this slack. The people are awakening to a new and more hygienic standard of living but there is still great need of more Danish schools...
...Brattvaag, already on its way home because sealing had been slack, finally picked up one of the signals, put in unexpectedly at Hasvik, 125 mi. north of Tromso, for Dr. Horn to communicate with his superiors...