Word: slackly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still trying to get the old prices. Retailers wanted new stock at prices reflecting present costs. To move old stock they were trimming price tags to that level. Nevertheless, Lazarus felt that price cuts and better quality goods would boost December sales enough to take up November's slack, and more...
...play, raised a notch higher by a smooth production. In her Broadway debut, Cinemactress Carroll is excellent; she catches the lure, the charm, the strong-mindedness demanded by the role. But Goodbye, My Fancy, after a bright beginning, becomes here a little too slick and there a little too slack. Playwright Kanin so much admires the characters with principles that she has no feeling for the characters with problems; she seems both a cardboard crusader and a complacent one. But the very shallowness of the play proves a kind of virtue: the whole thing can just be considered entertainment...
Beards & Matches. In the afternoons, he prowled around the base, dressed in a tan slack suit whose rayon trousers bore a conspicuous patch. Evenings, there was "paper work" (poker) in the commandant's white, jalousied house which serves as the Little White House. By 10 o'clock Harry Truman was in bed. Clark Clifford, who padded around barefoot sporting a three-day beachcomber's beard, explained contentedly, "We're getting more fun out of just sitting. My feet are getting so tough I can light a match on them...
...Force was missing no bets. In a deal with the airlines, it offered temporary jobs in the Berlin airlift to commercial pilots laid off during the slack winter season. It expected 100 to 200 experienced C-54 pilots to accept. It was also dickering for the return of 40 C-54s leased to the airlines...
...this year. But it was also due to the enormous demand kept up by industrial employment, which is still on the rise. It reached a record of 52,801,000 in August, some 350,000 above the previous month. (But total employment fell because of the seasonal midsummer slack on farms.) In the face of all this, it looked as if the U.S. could tighten its credit belt a great deal more before any sizable amount of inflation was squeezed out of the economy...