Word: slackly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...before a game, the application deadline; (2) posting of detailed ticket purchasing instructions on the bulletin board outside of the ticket office; (3) exchange of coupons for tickets outside of the cashier's cage so that more men can be accommodated; and (4) increased advertisement of the office's slack hours 9 to 11 o'clock...
...even maintain full use of its present capacity. But the current 85 million-ton production rate, industry points out, is 20 million tons greater than the 1929 "peak prosperity" year. The present steel shortage is largely due to demands that accumulated during the war and that, once satisfied, will slack off. Moreover, the shortage would be intensified by removing from present supply the five million tons of steel it would take to build plants to produce the new capacity of ten million tons...
...travel credit covering the fare and such incidentals as hotel bills, clothing and sports equipment. Within 24 hours, if their local credit is good, they will receive their tickets. Interest on the loans will range from 4% to 7%, depending on the bank, will be less in slack travel seasons...
They still expected that the readjustment would speed up in the fall, after seasonal workers lost their jobs. And U.S. exports, which had taken up the slack in the economy so far, were still a big question. Unless bolstered by a U.S. program of foreign aid, such as the Marshall Plan, they were almost certain to collapse by year's end. But Wall Street felt that the aid would come, no matter how pinchpenny Congress now seemed. All this caused the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Sanhedrin of financial theologians, to say in its July report: "While...
Acenstomed in those past summers to the din and bustle of a massive heard of new registrants eager to speed up their college education, Mem Hall will feel the first indication of a postwar slack-off today when 264 new veteran students, returning undergraduates, and special students fill out the "necessary forms...