Word: slackly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Aluminum Co. of America (Carolina Aluminum's parent). Alcoa, said FPC, had too long relied on cheap seasonal dump power. Smart management in peace, this practice now meant that Alcoa had to drain 150,000 kw. from other customers to keep producing through what used to be its slack season...
Profitwise, the production cut is not likely to affect the industry much. The motor companies have undertaken defense contracts which will take up any slack, may even tax their ability to find management and workmen (General Motors has $725,000,000 in defense contracts on its books, and some companies, like Packard, are already as busy on defense work as on cars). Workers are being switched into making airplane engines, tanks, bomber parts, guns and shells. It has been estimated that the industry would have to employ 150,000-200,000 new men to handle the defense orders...
...trite, it's right." Nash knows his American civilization, and he can write about it like an efficiency expert in baggy pants. His light verse is a remarkable rhetorical invention. Where McCord, a traditionalist, makes his words walk a tightrope of perfect succinctness, Nash makes his walk a slack rope of complete long-windedness...
Much of the slack in these branches of social science has been taken up by the new "Area of Social Sciences" which needed 15 concentrators to become established. Unexpectedly, this field was oversubscribed when 36 applied where only 30 can be accommodated by the Faculty...
NEWS AND NEW RELEASES. Record of the week is a fast blues duet by Ray McKinley (drums and vocal) and Freddie Slack (piano). It's called Southpaw Serenade, and gives the two musicians an opportunity to get out of the Will Bradley rut and really play some jazz. Freddie Slack's boogie-woogie shows the strong influence of Albert Ammons, plus an amazing talent for employing highly original bass figures. Top honors, however, go to McKinley's vocal. For a change he sings authentic blues, with a dirty old rasp in his voice which is pleasant to hear after...