Word: slackly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation's taxicab business has slumped as much as 25% below the normal summer slack. Parmelee Transportation Co., biggest U.S. company, with 4,167 cabs in New York, Chicago, Pittsburgh and Minneapolis, figures that this year's net may go as low as $500,000 (its boom-peak net: $2,000,000 in 1946). For many a smaller company, trying to meet more than doubled postwar costs on prewar fares, the slump means...
...performances-notably those of James Barton, Reginald Beane and James Cagney, are as deft a compromise between stage & screen as you are likely to see. Nevertheless, a good deal which would be as taut and resonant as a drumhead on the stage is relatively dull and slack on the screen. On the other hand, those who made the picture have given it something very rare. It's obvious that they love the play and their work in it, and their affection and enjoyment are highly contagious. They have done so handsomely by Saroyan that in the long run everything...
Alarm Signal? Business inventories in February, said the Department of Commerce, reached a new high of $42,750,000,000, up 3% from the month before. With a worried frown, the Department noted that only 30% of the $757,000,000 increase was due to a seasonal slack in sales; the rest was caused by growing buyer resistance...
...Naturally, we consider Stassen's two victories in the Wisconsin and Nebraska primaries a most encouraging sign," Pierce continued, "but we cannot slack up in our efforts to guarantee his nomination, and subsequent election. Tonight's meeting is one of the first in a series of planned measures to accomplish that...
...Whitney might each have been assembled from a ruin and tied together with string -pipes, masks, torn letters, weather vanes and carnival prizes teetering on Victorian tables. Kuniyoshi's figure paintings all show the same girl (who resembles none of his models) with black bangs, pinched features, a slack, heavy body and long, almost painfully sensitive hands. She sits motionless and exhausted, her narrow dark eyes smudged with dismay, or wanders across desolate landscapes...