Word: slackly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...again showed signs of passing him, but the game Chevrolet driver depressed his accelerator a bit more and drew away. And so the informal race continued, the Chevrolet playing with the Ford in much the same way that a fisherman casts for small-mouthed Bass-giving him plenty of slack and then drawing...
That this will be a news account of the future was announced last week by Deputy WPAdministrator Aubrey Williams in a letter to Florida's Representative J. Mark Wilcox, promising $300,000 of WPA funds for the immediate erection of nine storm barracks. During the slack hurricane season, he said, the shelters will be the scene of teaching operations, church sociables...
...young Minnesota Swede who had been a diamond-drill operator in the iron mines until the slack season of 1914, Carl Wickman became the Hupmobile salesman in the bare little town of Hibbing. Unable to sell the first Hupp sent him, he began a small livery business. Collections on his first trip amounted to $2.25. Presently he added a partner, another automobile, scheduled trips. By 1918 the company was making some $40,000, had 18 ramshackle busses in northern Minnesota...
...manufacturing slack, post-Christmas retail layoffs and post-NRA lengthening of working hours were blamed by the American Federation of Labor last week for the fact that an estimated 1,229,000 persons lost their jobs last January, as compared with 669,000 in January 1935. A five-year record for the month, the loss brought the A. F. of L.'s estimate of total unemployed to 12,626,000. Its figure for January...
...Night tariffs for long-distance interstate telephone calls average about 40% lower than day rates, go into effect at 7 p. m., apply to station-to-station calls only. In a new schedule effective Jan. 15, American Telephone & Telegraph proposes to extend slack-time discounts in approximately the same ratio to person-to-person calls. All discounts will also be extended to Sunday daytime traffic, night rates applying from 7 p. m. Saturday to 4:30 a. m. Monday...