Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...building across from the Hotel de Ville. Then other machine guns and rifles fired from above. Everything stopped. People dived under cars, trucks, jeeps, while every man who had a gun or a pistol-and hundreds had-started firing. The thousands of pedestrians in the square stampeded, scattered, fell flat, piled three or four deep in places...
Nevertheless the Navy sailed them, along with the converted oilers of the Sangamon class and the C-3s of the Bogue class. They swelled the baby flat-top fleet and they were probably as good as anything which could be provided, with the time and tools available...
They were armed and clothed with U.S. equipment, drilled English-style, saluted either flat-handed like the British, or finger-tips-to-forehead, G.I.-fashion. Two of the three top commanders were men from the U.S., most of the battalion leaders, Canadian. Most top sergeants were Canadian; most junior officers, from below the border. Troops from the two countries got along together, despite the pay differential in favor of the U.S. soldiers...
...over six weeks ago. He had dickered with San Francisco's McNeil-Naify Co. (100 theaters in California and Nevada), to show Up in Arms (TIME, March 13) on a percentage of the gross basis, which would be highly profitable to Goldwyn. McNeil-Naify offered him a lower flat-rental basis, which would be highly profitable to them...
Louis B. Mayer would love to make a piker out of Alfred Nobel. So it was natural that when M.-G.-M. handed out a prize for a novel Louis Mayer did not stop at a mere $30,000 to $40.000 (the Nobel Prizes vary). He made it a flat $125,000-plus a bonus of up to $50,000 if the book becomes a bestseller...