Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spring of 1933 I went to the Goodnews section of and succeeded in securing options and leases on some 85 20-acre placer platinum-bearing claims and turned this deal to a group of placer miners from Flat, Alaska, who formed a company known as the Goodnew Mining Co. This company placed a dragline scraper mining outfit on this ground in 1934 and although they were held up by the marine strike of that year they succeeded in recovering some 3,000 oz. The hand miners took out about 2,000 oz. that season also. Last summer, 1935, the Goodnews...
...convention came out flat-footedly against "spiritually destructive methods of raising money," such as church card parties and dances, by approving the American Missions Board's decision to withdraw support from 575 mission churches if they persist in so raising funds...
...unrecognizable. Wonder horse of the season is a 7-year-old named Action. When Trainer Jacobs bought him for the customary $1,000 six months ago, Action was not only the cheapest kind of plater but, apparently, superannuated and a cripple. Rejuvenated, and converted from a steeplechaser into a flat racer by his new owner, he won eleven out of his next 13 starts. Last week Action had earned $22,685, was a leader in the handicap division, racing's highest...
...amount of overlap desired on successive pictures, the shutter clicks at regular intervals in the plane's flight. Coincidentally with each click a little subsidiary camera records on the negative the time, temperature, altitude, bubble level reading and identification number. Then a vacuum, holding the film firmly flat during exposure, is released, and the roll is wound for the next exposure...
...least of the Fairchild aerial wonders are aerial contour maps, now made in a big way for the Department of Agriculture in connection with soil conservation work. In a vertical aerial photograph the earth's surface looks perfectly flat. Third dimensional relief can be obtained by the principle employed in the oldtime stereoscope. Pictures of the same area are shot from two slightly different positions, thus providing a parallax in the same way that a person's two eyes do in normal sight. The two pictures are then inserted in a super-glorified stereoscope (built with Zeiss...