Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President's Big Navy Policy was summed up in the short recommendation for a flat 20% increase in the "existing authorized building program for increases and replacements." Since the U. S. never built up to limits imposed by the 5-5-3 naval treaties, and since the program already underway was designed merely to catch up with the treaties, what the President asked for last week was a Navy 20% bigger than allowed by the expired treaties, a Navy second to none of the big navies now building. (Most up-to-date naval figures, compiled by FORTUNE...
...will be left with an honorary card given him as a one-finger piano virtuoso by the Chicago Musicians Union. That is not enough to hold down the presidency of the A. F. of L., and he will have to join the Progressive Miners of America, which is flat on its back with 36 members sentenced to jail and a $117,000 fine hanging over its head (TIME...
When Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, every patriotic young German eagerly looked to the day when Germany would eliminate the Polish Corridor which joins Poland to the Baltic and separates the flat lands of German East Prussia from the rest of Germany. In 1934. with many troubles on his back, Adolf Hitler shrewdly pacified one enemy by signing a treaty with Poland promising not to agitate the Polish Corridor question for another ten years, a treaty violently unpopular among Germans...
WOULD GREATLY APPRECIATE COOPERATION YOUR DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY OBTAINING DATA GRYLLUS DOMESTICUS OR GRYLLUS NEGLECTUS REQUIRED FOR SPECIAL SONG NUMBER IN NEW LAUREL & HARDY MUSICAL FILM SWISS MISS STOP ALL CALIFORNIA CRICKETS RECORD IN B-FLAT STOP WE NEED ONE IN KEY OF G TO FIT THE VOICE RANGE OF WALTER WOOLF KING STOP IF POSSIBLE SHOULD BE ONE-BEAT CHIRP IN FOUR-FOUR TIME...
...Tortilla Flat (adapted by Jack Kirkland; produced by Jack Kirkland & Sam H. Grisman). Critics, like partridges, should never be shot sitting. That this sportsmanlike principle still lingers on Broadway was evidenced last week...