Word: flatirons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since June 1940, every British family has kept its shotgun and poker, pitchfork and flatiron ready to use against invaders whenever the church bells rang. This week the bells broke their long silence. Over tattered city streets, shining holly hedgerows, silvering fields and the camouflaged tin huts of army encampments the rolling echoed, celebrating with propriety victory in Egypt...
...scrapping of present dies for munitions (TIME, May 18) and war's speed-up of industrial invention are bringing extraordinary changes nearer. Soon after war's end, Americans will be able to ride in cars that look like a tear drop, an egg, or a flatiron...
...last week, he recited current Army shortages (TIME, May 27). The Congressmen were thoroughly alarmed by his testimony. But what might well have shocked them was his casual statement, in response to the Congressmen's cries of alarm: the figures should be "emblazoned on the sides of the Flatiron Building...
...colloquial synonym for magnitude, Manhattan's 21-story Flatiron Building went out of style about the time the automobile began to replace the horse. In the U. S. Army, the horse up to last week was still holding its own. The Chief of Cavalry (which includes the Army's only mechanized brigade) was still a horseman (Major General John K. Kerr), who gets the heaves when he has to think about gasoline engines. General Wesson's offhand remark told more than he knew about the attitudes which underlie, enmesh, explain the Army and Navy...