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Word: flatted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: De Gaulle's Day | 9/4/1944 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: The Navy's Babies | 9/4/1944 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - OPERATIONS: The Black Devils | 9/4/1944 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: The Battle of Reno | 9/4/1944 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tycoon Mayer & Tycoon Nobel | 9/4/1944 | See Source »

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