Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...industry's taxes, in effect, 2) would fail to distinguish between the profit that industry deserves on its own investment and what it should get on the investment of public funds (as in the case of Government-built factories). All Government witnesses, including the Treasury, came out flat-footed against allowing postwar reserves as a cost item in war contracts. Their reasons: 1) existing tax laws already allow for some postwar reconversion cost; 2) no one can estimate the costs of conversion to peace before the conversion takes place...
...Altostratus, a high, flat, greyish blanket, gives a flyer a wide range of maneuver: he can duck below it to look at the ground, climb above to hide, thread his way above and below to lose a pursuer...
...over occupied Europe, Sergeant Gunner Wissenback's Flying, Fortress went into a flat spin. Pilot and copilot had been killed. Wissenback just managed to bail out at 1,000 feet, with only the chest-straps of his parachute hooked...
...even a head-covering, since it was almost flat and had to be pinned to the top of the head to remain fixed. Onto this grotesque creation I affixed some unrelated feathers and flowers. ... As I anticipated, the leading milliners of Paris, London and New York enthusiastically hailed the new creation. . . . There were decorations protruding from decorations, colors clashed wherever possible; long feathers would bristle out at least a foot over the head...
Scientists abhor anything that smacks of soothsaying, rarely let themselves get caught in a flat prediction. But into the serious studies of many eminently respectable scientists can be read some of the most fascinating long-range forecasting since Noah built the Ark. Such studies are the special province of the Foundation for the Study of Cycles,* which last week celebrated its third anniversary...