Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...start with, of hundreds of millions in future*-this year's prelude to a general World War pension bill scheduled for next year. And the Senate made a gesture even more expensive toward the farm vote. When economy-minded Senators proposed, in committee, to shave a flat 10% or 5% from all items in the House's $835,000,000 Agriculture supply bill, the committee shied. Such a move might be all right, they said, if applied by the whole Senate to each & every supply bill regardless, but to single out Agriculture for such treatment struck them...
...pack of women running after Cinemactor Spencer Tracy on a platform in London's Waterloo Station knocked Arturo Toscanini flat...
...over the first jump, held its breath as they reached the third, known as the Union Memorial Fence.* After that dreaded obstacle was surmounted without mishap, a roar thundered through the lush valley. Blockade was in the lead, Coq Bruyere far behind. Fencing perfectly and lightning fast on the flat, Blockade clung to his lead. Not until the 18th jump did Coq Bruyere challenge. They took the last fence neck & neck. Then, in as exciting a stretch finish as is seen in many a six-furlong sprint on the flat, Blockade, with Farm Boy John Colwill up, just nosed...
Sharing Big Steel's worries, in a more modest way, is the industry's No. 4 unit-Jones & Laughlin, also frozen up in Pittsburgh, also led in the Detroit flat-steel market by National Steel and others. Owing preferred stockholders $36.75 a share of back dividends, J. & L. is certainly no happier than Big Steel...
...last week a big, bullet-shaped touring car nosed out of the Derham Custom Body Co.'s plant at Rosemont, Pa., and headed for Manhattan and glory. Army drab -colored, dark -green -leather -upholstered, fitted with a special top that folds down flat so that guests' may sit thereon in comfort to be admired, the sleek, custom-built Chrysler Imperial was destined to be the personal car of the president of the New York World's Fair, the greatest greeter of his time, Grover Aloysius Whalen...