Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more powerful every day. A fortnight ago foreign correspondents were taken to a plant near the Urals. In June, when the war broke out, it was a relatively unimportant factory producing a few simple machines. On Aug. 3 a Leningrad factory shut down, dismantled its machinery, loaded it on flat cars and sent it east, along with most of its skilled workers and executives. While the trains were on their way, a community of wooden sheds was built around the Urals plant. When the machines arrived they were set up at once. Unskilled workers were hired from the locality...
...western desert, the R.A.F. attacked a caravan of vehicles, destroying considerable supplies of gasoline. Too late, the attackers learned they fought their own troops. . . . Near Bagdad, in Iraq, the R.A.F. actually attacked British ground forces. Such episodes contributed to the flat statement by one high-ranking British officer in the Middle East cam paign: 'I will not go into action again unless I am able to give direct orders to the air squadrons allocated to my support...
...sole remaining remnant of the one-time famous Harvard drama department, has produced plenty of flop shows. The officers deserted their policy of trying out experiments for one of attracting the public with lighter, frothier material than Auden, Isherwood, and T, S. Eliot. Unfortunately, the compromise policy has fallen flat and the H. D. C. has lost the prestige of its old daring innovations without gaining any compensatory lucre at the box-office...
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto in B Flat Minor (Vladimir Horowitz, with Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony; Victor; 8 sides; $4.50). The piece which most people know (from its opening themes) as Tonight We Love, Concerto for Two, etc., gets a brilliant recording, with "The Old Man" driving his Son-in-law Horowitz and the orchestra without mercy...
Mozart: Concerto No. 3 in E Flat Major for Horn and Orchestra (Aubrey Brain and the BBC Symphony, conducted by Sir Adrian Boult; Victor; 4 sides; $2.50) and Duo No. 2 in B Flat Major for Violin and Viola (Jascha Heifetz and William Primrose; Victor; 5 sides; $3). Two out-of-the-way items, finely tooled...