Word: slackly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stock of natural resources to use up before inflation could show its ugly head. The government did most of the financing then, and raised money by selling securities and expanding the credit system. The U. S. paid for war goods out of a rise in national income. Now the slack in men and materials has been used up, and any further stretching of the credit system would send prices bolting to the skies. We are entering into a second period in the national defense effort: a stage of curtailed consumption and deferred purchasing power...
...eyes to Washington, Australia has nevertheless bent her back to the Empire effort, making guns, mortars, howitzers, shells, planes, engines, parachutes, corvettes and destroyers in quantity surprising for a wool-growing country of 7,000,000. Yet, as always when the storm breaks at home, there was still more slack to be taken up, and Australia gave a mighty heave...
...January, which is usually the slack month of the year, the shop was able to sell as many bikes as had been sold in the preceding six months, but now very few new machines can be obtained to replenish the stock as it is depleted...
When all the cars had made several trips in and out of the schoolyard, and the woman in slack became accustomed to running in and out the door and the men with bandages had got used to walking up and down, and the big dog didn't come back any more, everyone began to enjoy his job. The drivers enjoyed letting their motors run and disregarding traffic lights. The faces of the men with the bandages on their arms lost their strained looks, after they had walked off their Sunday dinners. Nor did they look so sheepish when they...
...last Thursday at 9 p.m. the crooner with the deceptively loafing air and unsinkable savvy put on the first request show for the U.S. Front. He walked through it as usual, easing around the Hollywood studio in a blue slack suit, looking, without his movie toupee, like a rapid-fire kewpie. For MacArthur's artillerymen he sang Those Caissons Go Rolling Along-and added "those 155s keep dishing...