Word: slacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...however, seemed very worried. It was summer, and the prospect of a two or three week walkout from 'the mill heat during July held few terrors for most steel workers. The industry was also heading into the midsummer slack; steel production, currently scheduled at 95.7% of capacity, would probably drop to 80% before the expected snapback late in the third quarter...
...General Motors President Harlow H. Curtice, who is worried about FRB's tightening of credit (see box), told stockholders that sales were seriously down, but noted that higher production by other G.M. divisions-notably Electro-Motive diesel and Allison aircraft en gines-would take up some of the slack...
What worries businessmen, whose memories of 1954's recession are still fresh, is that FRB's credit brakes might have too harsh an effect on the econ omy, curb the industrial expansion that is now taking up the slack left by the auto industry. But FRB is watching the situation closely, and is ready to change at the first real sign of trouble. With its many monetary tools, it does not necessarily have to make money cheaper by relaxing the discount rate in order to ease credit. It may simply expand the money supply by stepping up purchases...
...road, "the one bad thing about baseball," says he. He went to every movie in town ("I don't care what's playing; I like 'em all"), slept for long hours, read the sports pages, stared blankly out of bus and train windows, sat slack-jawed in hotel lobbies...
Tutti Frutti (Pat Boone; Dot). Most of the lyrics are composed of the title phrases plus the syllables "aw rootie," a tune written to .be sung by a virile but slack-jawed male...