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Patrons have noticed the slow-up, too.

"I don't look at this as a slow-up or a hiccup," he said.

Dorothy Lamour was refused entrance to the Glenn L. Martin plane plant at Middle River, Md., on the ground that a slow-up for ogling and neck-craning "might cost us half a bomber."

Like other manufacturers, Chrysler will go into M-4 production without slow-up.

Though the unemployment rate in March dropped to 4.7%, the lowest point in seven years, and the Labor Department last week announced that manufacturing jobs have reached a 21-year high, White House economists and Labor Department officials fear that the gain is only temporary and that the first slight slow-up in economic growth will send the unemployment rate climbing toward 5% again.