Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dewey radio would not work that night, as the Dewey party rolled through the flat Arizona desert, eastbound from California after a full week of campaigning on the coast (see below). But the reporters' radio, in the lounge car, worked perfectly, almost as perfectly as the Champ had used it. And soon word of the speech filtered through to the Dewey...
...dark, and fog hanging over the flat Indiana countryside rushed steadily back into the glare of the headlight of the Dixie Flyer, pounding south from Chicago. Locomotive Engineer Frank Blair stared hard ahead, to catch the dim gleam of the rails. Suddenly, about five miles from Terre Haute, he saw something which few railroad engineers have seen, under the modern railroad signal systems.* Into the headlight sprang the headlight of another locomotive, on the single track ahead. Frank Blair's palm hit the throttle; he jerked at the air brakes. The huge drivers screeched and slid, and Engineer Blair...
...first day, after a disorderly, hot-tempered session, the delegates voted nearly 2-to-1 against a flat repeal of the no-strike pledge. Next morning they voted the other way (against reaffirming the pledge), by a closer tally, 5,232-to-4,988. In complete confusion, the convention sent the whole matter back to committee. Out of committee came the referendum compromise...
...independent, last year, he was Fox's highest-priced writer ($3,500 a week), was doing the lion's share of the studio's most important pictures, and was privileged to turn down the most desperately fat contract Hollywood has ever offered a writer-a flat five-year contract, for 52 weeks a year without options, at $4,500 a week, with six weeks' vacation at full...
...actor-producer, he will get 49% of the profits from every picture he produces. At the moment he has taken ten weeks off on a private deal to write a script which Cooper will produce and act in-again for International. For this side order he is getting a flat...