Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Recommended a cut of $157 million in the $5.4 billion appropriation requested for ECA. His reasons: 1) to take advantage of price declines since ECA figured up its needs last October; 2) to steal the thunder from Republican proponents of a flat...
...effort to modernize the basis for minimum support prices, the Brannan plan includes a new and highly-complicated formula. The present support price is a flat 90 percent of parity, parity taken as the 1909-1914 period. A new plan, scheduled to go into effect in 1950, will allow prices to vary between 60 and 90 percent of parity. The Brannan plan, however, will base support prices for each year on the average of the ten previous years...
...York, decided the Russians, might conceivably be all right as a place to visit, but they sure wouldn't want to live there. The daily Vechernyaya Moskva took a long look at Manhattan's skyline and found it little more than "an accumulation of flat surfaces, a chaotic mass of styles, like monstrous stalagmites . . ." Furthermore, Manhattan's topless towers are dangerous and uncomfortable. On windy days, "lamps swing and water splashes . . . The inhabitants of the Empire State Building can hardly experience great pleasure when the tremendous building swings with the wind and one can clearly hear various...
...dingy, one-room flat on the Rue Bonaparte, oil lamps and candles light up the empire fauteuils, the portraits of Napoleon and the etchings of Napoleon's greatest battles. Fèvre has never ridden in the subway or a bus; he steadfastly refuses to switch on an electric light or read a daily paper. "What men call progress," he says bitterly, "is nothing but a sham. Transportation has improved, but noble sentiments become rarer...
From the U.S. Army of World War I, Pratt picks Charles P. Summerall, another artilleryman who rose to be a corps commander. Unlike his big-gun colleagues who advocated steamroller barrages, Summerall believed in pinpoint targets, but what endears him most to Pratt is his flat belief that "artillery exists only to protect and support infantry...