Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blow One. On a flat greensward near Cincinnati sprawls the immense Lockland factory of Wright Aeronautical Corp., hailed in 1941 as the largest single-storied industrial plant in the world. The Truman Committee sniffed trouble there last January, reported it to Wright and the Army Air Forces. After four months, while Wright and the AAF found little wrong, Truman moved in, took 1,300 pages of testimony. Some points...
...been hunched grotesquely in their bucket seats. Now they rose quickly, hooked up their release lines. Each man bulged with 100 pounds of gear-tommy gun, pistol, grenades, rations, cigarets, medical equipment, knife-bayonet. Over the side they could see the flat, rocky terrain. Inside the island of Sicily there were islands of fire-the fierce circles of flame left by Allied aerial barrages...
Aged cars and outworn farm machinery, long parked on flat acres to make them unhealthy for landing enemy aircraft, had been removed for salvage. Stout wires hung alongside broad highways for the same purpose had disappeared. Plate glass was replacing boarded-up shop windows. The Great Western Railway had restored 510 station names erased during the invasion scare. Trams, busses, subways and autos were removing some shades from their lights. Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard called for abolition of the blackout...
...three-quarter-mile white water rapids. The first canal and a tiny, 39-foot-long lock were dug in 1797 by the North West Fur Co. to steal a march on the Hudson's Bay Co. This gave its bearded, fur-hatted voyageurs a quicker route for their flat-bottomed bateaux. During the war of 1812, Americans wrecked this canal. Later, when the Michigan legislature asked Congress to dig a new canal, Congress refused, relying on the judgment of Orator Henry Clay, who cried: "It is a work quite beyond the remotest settlement of the United States...
These practices have made A. P. a sort of private club, the Government maintained; they add up to a "flat boycott" against non A. P. papers; membership restrictions are so strict (majority vote of the members and payment of a stiff fee) that it takes an average six years to get an A. P. franchise. Moreover, the fee (10% of the assessments that A. P. members in the locality have paid since 1900) is so stiff that a new member in the New York City morning field (unless he could buy an A. P. franchise from a bankrupt paper) would...