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Word: flatly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unanimous voice vote, approved the compromise tax bill drastically modifying the corporate surplus-profits tax, substituting flat rates for the graduated capital-gains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Work Done, May 16, 1938 | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...eleven other Italian liners carried members of the House of Savoy, bigwigs of Germany and Italy. In one of the fastest naval getaways ever executed, the Italian fleet dashed out of the harbor with intervals of only a few seconds between each ship, got away in 25 minutes flat, each warboat dipping colors to the Conte di Cavour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY-ITALY: $20,000,000 Visit | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...Even flat rice fields and unattractive ravines can have their faces lifted, Richard K. Weber, assistant professor of Landscape Architecture, has shown by topographical surgery in Long Island and the South in the past three years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Landscape Artist Is Topographical Surgeon | 5/13/1938 | See Source »

Ervin Elzie Joy, 28, of Vancouver, Wash., operates a railroad drawbridge. In his spare time he is an Unlicensed air pilot and builds planes. After five years of patient tinkering, Inventor Joy produced a 28-foot, wingless, flat fuselage shaped like an attenuated sting ray, which he called a Flying Flapjack. Last week he announced that his Flapjack was ready for tests, almost ready for mass production, would revolutionize aviation. At Vancouver's Pearson Field one afternoon unlicensed Test Pilot Sidney Monastes climbed aboard, tuned the twin 38-h.p. motors, taxied out for the start. The Flapjack roared, reared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Flapjack Flipped | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

After the accident, Washburn and Borrows dived repeatedly in unsuccessful attempts to release the drowning women from the cabin. Washburn said that he was not used to the new type of pontoons on the plane, and that he landed too flat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEAPLANE PILOTED BY WASHBURN TRAPS WOMEN | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

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