Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week General Nasution and Premier Djuanda seemed to be intent on proving themselves more responsible than Sukarno. General Nasution issued a flat "hands-off" order to Red-led SOBSI workers who wanted to seize the vast Royal Dutch Shell Co. holdings in Surabaya and Balikpapan. And at week's end Premier Djuanda announced that the fountainhead of the anti-Dutch campaign, Sukarno's Action Committee to Liberate West Irian (West New Guinea), had been dissolved, its functions taken over by the National Council...
...long as the ruling stands, gas suppliers will have to negotiate separate rate scales with every industrial or municipal consumer, rather than setting a flat rate for all of them. As for the FPC, not only will its rate-regulating powers be cut, but it will have to hire about 1,200 new employees to handle the job of examining the legality of each individual rate contract. Gas suppliers and the FPC both said that they would ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review the decision...
Metal Spare Tire. Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. has developed a flat, rubber-rimmed metal spare tire that takes up little room in the trunk, can easily be bolted on the hub over a flat tire by raising the wheel off the pavement with a jack. The motorist can drive as far as 100 miles on the tire at speeds of up to 45 m.p.h...
...East Germany's Communist newspaper Neues Deutschland delivered itself of a new item of Kremlin theology with the flat announcement that the earth satellites "demonstrate to the masses of the people very clearly that space beyond our earth is neither at the mercy of a God or any other supernatural or imaginary powers...
...smoothness. McGinness once had to calm a frightened 17-year-old named Patrice Munsel, making her professional radio debut on the show, with a chocolate ice-cream soda. And recently, McGinness had to "play mother hen to mollify some embarrassed" ladies of the chorus who were undressing behind a flat that was suddenly "flown"' to the ceiling...