Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...graduated tax instead of the pres-ent flat rate (13 1/4%) on corporation earnings...
Wetting the bed after he is three years old is a habit no child should have.** Yet a tremendous number of children suffer from enuresis. Adenoids, flat feet, thyroid deficiencies and a score more reasons have been presented to explain bedwetting. Dr. Kanner says it is almost always due simply to lack of adequate training, general carelessness concerning the regularity of the child's habits. To cure a child of wetting the bed Dr. Kanner simply tells him that he can be cured, that he should not be ashamed, that he should help with all his might. Almost invariably children...
...Administration upward of 30 votes shy of a majority to sustain the Senate's action, President Roosevelt demanded a record vote on the House floor so he could see which Democrats were with him and which were against him. The House Rules Committee turned his request down flat...
...another record when it awarded contracts for $11,819,000 worth of railway equipment, biggest single order this year. From American Car & Foundry, Pullman-Standard Manufacturing Co., General American Car Co. and Bethlehem Steel Co., C. & O. ordered 5,000 50-ton steel hopper coal cars, 75 steel underframe flat cars and 50 single deck stock cars-a total of 5,125 units, nearly four times as much as all the freight cars ordered by all the other railroads in the land to date this year...
Union Bag was originally not a maker of bags but of bag-making machinery, sold under license agreements. Up to the Civil War paper bags were improvised by wrapping old paper around one's arm and twisting the end like a cornucopia. Flat bags were developed in the 1860's and with them patented machinery for large-scale cutting and pasting. When it became evident that there was more money in making bags than bag machinery, Union Bag's predecessor merged with a group of companies operating under its licenses...