Word: slackly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under the spotlight, her thin, sharp face had the moody glower of an unsuccessful manicurist. Her lank, hemp-colored hair splashed in uncombed confusion above her black velvet sheath. But weird as she looked, slack-mouthed, hazel-eyed Singer Tammy Grimes sounded wonderful-no mean accomplishment in the cramped quarters of Julius Monk's Downstairs at the Upstairs, a crowded Manhattan nightclub where the man who moves may catch his neighbor's elbow in his ear or his companion's highball...
...Government no longer feels bound to buy its way out of recession with tax cuts and many-billioned programs of every type. In the new economy, built-in stabilizers automatically operate to take up the slack, keep income, and thus consumption, at high levels...
...personal income ($353.3 billion) at record levels. As labor incomes slipped $6.2 billion by April, chiefly from the declines in autos. and thus in steel, payments from unemployment insurance, pensions, social security, etc.. automatically climbed $5.5 billion (to $26.1 billion annually) and took up the worst of the slack. Increasing federal, state and local outlays for needed schools, hospitals, dams and roads helped keep construction growing to a record $48.8 billion. The 1957 housing slump was turned around (1,170,000 new housing starts in 1958) with the aid of beefed-up FHA, VA and Fannie May programs. Good...
...trade, become all-purpose production units. In Honan's pilot Sputnik Commune (which occupies an area two-thirds the size of Long Island), 43,000 members are divided into 27 "production corps" and 87 smaller "production battalions." At harvest time almost everyone is sent into the fields. In slack agricultural seasons or in their "spare time" they are put to dam building, construction of primitive factories, or industrial labor. All members of the commune get regular military training, and even when not on duty they must move by the numbers. At Chao Ying commune in Honan, according...
...what to do about pricing deconverted suites. As Arthur D. Trottenberg '48, Manager of Operating Services, points out, the rooms are presently priced to meet operating expenses of the Houses. If a three-man suite is deconverted to accommodate two men, either these two will have to split the slack left by the loss of a third man, or the rent adjustment program will have to account for the difference...