Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moreover, it gives recognition to the generally accepted fact that larger corporations enjoying the advantages of size over smaller corporations possess relatively greater capacity to pay. Consequently the act changes the rate of tax on net earnings from a flat 13¾% to a differential ranging from...
...m.p.h. Disgusted at having missed his objective by an eyelash, Driver Campbell said he would try again next morning. Four hours later, he was told that a bungling timer had made an error in arithmetic and that his correct speed was 301.337. Said Sir Malcolm: "The news comes somewhat flat but I am glad to hear it. . . . I feel that the Bluebird has made her last flight...
...novelty, the Bonneville Salt Flats have been in their present position and equally well suited to high-speed automobile driving for centuries. One hundred miles west of Salt Lake City, they are part of the dried-up bed of prehistoric Lake Bonneville which once covered most of northwestern Utah. For 200 square miles the residual salt is as flat as a concrete highway, so hard that iron tent-stakes often bend when driven in. In the winter two inches of rain cover the flats, leave a fresh, white, marble-smooth surface in the spring. There is no dust. Moisture...
...Illinois State Fair at Springfield, Greyhound broke the world's record for 3-year-old geldings by trotting a mile in 2 min. flat (TIME, Aug. 23). Carnivals grossed $50,000 for an all-time record. Attendance was up to 810,000 which was 175,000 more than last year...
...bank returned his check for $7.40 marked "Insufficient Funds," the penniless wildcatter struck oil. In three or four years North & South Oil Co. made $2,000,000. Promoter Davis mailed checks for $200,000 to each of the two geologists who had left him flat. Later he sold his oil properties to Magnolia Petroleum Co. for $12,000,000, settled down to spend his fortune. One day in Texas he met an old schoolmate named J. Frank Davis, a Boston newshawk who had been grievously crippled in an accident. Edgar Davis suggested that Frank Davis write a play, offered...