Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Concessionaires. The profits of the 887 concessionaires and subconcessionaires have not been made public. Some of them leased their concessions at a flat rate but most of them were on a royalty basis so that their gross take was known: $27,000,000. Receipts of concessions at the southern end of the three-and-a-half mile long fair grounds were a disappointment although they improved as the summer wore on. Down there, "Mexico" and "Wings of a Century" became good attractions. The latter lost $20,000 a week at first, made money by midsummer, played to capacity crowds...
...sailing with the rest of the U. S. banks which had no need for more capital (TIME, Oct. 23 ). But though he has sold his idea to bank officials throughout the land, he has learned that stockholders are not yet enthusiastic. And last week Mr. Jones met the first flat refusal from a clearing house association. The Pittsburgh Clearing House held a secret session. To it-his first meeting in years-went Andrew William Mellon. Just what happened was not revealed, but people said old Mr. Mellon simply stated that his Union Trust and Mellon National "would not need...
Miss Doris McLeod, on Thursday, Oct. 19, swam from the shore to the island and then around it. She started from pier 45 on the embarcadero, bucked the tide all the way out and half the way back and landed at the South End Rowing Club in two hours flat...
...Gulf of California (then called the Vermilion Sea), Juan fraternized with the pearl fishers, swallowed many a fish story. Besides mermaids, these fishermen were in great dread of the ojon, a large, flat fish with a single eye in its back, which had to be treated with excessive politeness or it would start a tornado. Said one of them: "I have come home from a Gulf trip so weak with suppressed rage at enforced politeness to an ojon, that I nearly died before I could pick a fight with some land dawdler or beat my wife about a trifle...
...loud crash yesterday afternoon on the steps descending from the main floor to the lower Treasure Room of the Harvard College Library startled students and officials in the vicinity. Investigation revealed that a large flat glass chandelier, which was suspended from the ceiling above the steps had fallen down. One of the Library secretaries, who was descending the stairs at the time, barely escaped injury, as the falling fixture missed hitting her by a matter of inches...