Word: slackly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said Nelson, the consumer got more goods and services than he had ever had before-except for slap-happy 1941, when the war program took a far smaller share of total output than its 40% bite by the end of 1942. This year there is no more slack to take up in manpower and materials; civilian production will nosedive as war production rises. Overall per-capita consumption will probably be off 20% from last year...
...damage was secondary but no less important: entire townships of workers' homes rendered completely uninhabitable; power stations destroyed; telephone and power lines ripped out; water supplies for the big industries reduced for at least a year, until the dams could be repaired and the reservoirs refilled after the slack water season...
...final meeting of the Caisson Club will be held next Tuesday in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room at 2000. Activity in the Caisson Club has been slack lately because of the pressure of hour exams and divisionals...
...soon to plumb the Japanese mind. But as South Pacific fighting went into its second spring, one paradox grew plain: though the Allied position in the past year had improved infinitely, Japan's position was not correspondingly worse. The fighting had only taken up the slack in battle lines. Now each adversary had a firm foothold. The next blow would be to the other's body. The race to assemble the requisite sea and air power probably would determine where and when that blow would fall...
More important still: in discussing the postwar world, the President, while conceding that some governmental spending may be necessary to pick up employment slack, said flatly: "I am certain that private enterprise will provide the vast majority of the jobs...