Word: slackly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...highest prices ever, many an insurance outfit had profits of five to 25 points. They had to sell because they needed cash to buy an ever-rising flood of Government bonds. Whatever the reason, this is a good break for private investors: 1) it makes up for the wartime slack in new municipal financing (towns & cities cannot get materials for new construction); 2) it gives them a crack at topflight bonds which have a good yield and are tax-exempt to boot. Result: private investors have already bought enough municipal bonds to knock the floating supply down to about...
...killed his white employer in alleged self-defense. The mob brushed politely past Deputy Sheriff Holder, past the open steel doors and heavy bars. They took Howard Wash away with them to Welborn's Bridge and left him there-hanging limp like a broken crow, his slack toes pointed down at the drying creek...
...about five by five." "That," said Tunesmith De Paul, "is an idea for a song." By the time the evening was over, Raye and De Paul had written the song out complete-on a paper napkin. Four years later Mister Five By Five, plugged to popularity by Bandleader Freddie Slack...
...Boogie (Freddie Slack and his Orchestra; Capitol). Blues prairily twanged by Vocalist Ella May Morse...
Baxter, who recently returned from Great Britain where he was working for Colonel Donovan's Office of Strategic Services, spoke on his impressions of "England in Wartime." According to the Williams President, "England is today making the maximum effort. There is very little slack left and the British need us. They have a great respect for the quality and leadership of American officers...