Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...complements the nation's mightiest sea arm. Jauntily steamed four light cruisers (Omaha, Cincinnati, Concord, Detroit). Rolling porpoise-wise came 24 destroyers. Like sluggish metal fish, six submarines crawled along with decks awash. Plowing forward in the procession were the Lexington and the Saratoga with aircraft on their flat backs. Mine sweepers, oilers, repair, supply and hospital ships, seagoing camp-followers, all bunched together in a guarded block. Theoretically 25 troop transports accompanied the armada, carrying a command of 40.000 men under Major General Malin Craig. Actual personnel of this Blue fleet, about to engage with the Black defenders...
...building business it is traditional that as New York goes, so goes the union. Under the proposed reductions bricklayers would be paid $12 per day instead of $15.40. Plasterers would be cut from $15.40 to $10. Their helpers, now paid from $8.15 to $10.12, would receive a flat $7. These reductions would bring building tradesmen back to the 1923 basis. As labor absorbs 60% of the expense of erecting the average building, a decrease in construction costs appeared close at hand to help stimulate the industry...
This was a threat the rest of the world could not ignore. Until 1840 Shanghai was little more than a second rate Chinese city sitting on a mud flat at the mouth of the turbulent Yangtze River, but in 1842 Britain defended her right to sell dope to the Chinese by fighting and winning the Opium War. Shanghai was made one of five Treaty Ports opened to foreign trade. Other nations saw the importance of the city. France and the U. S. acquired territorial concessions there. Shanghai became the funnel mouth for half the commerce of China. Today...
...staircase with narrow treads and high risers they entered the tomb's antechamber. Nothing remarkable there. Beyond was a flat-ceilinged room. Again nothing remarkable. But there was a second room in whose murk things glittered. Professor Caso forbade any one to follow him except his wife and two other assistants. Carefully they crawled forward...
...There is no direct connection between the revolving fixture and the dial in the cubicle. The spindle above ends in a flat horizontal plate, and close beneath is another plate. Electrically charged, the lower swings with the other, but is not subject to spinning...