Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slow-looking, fast-moving Henry Kaiser, both triumphs were sweet. As a production man, the sweeter was the flat-topped Casablanca. For when Kaiser hopped into Washington only last March with plans for large-scale construction of desperately needed carriers from merchant-ship designs, he was cold-shouldered. As usual, the Navy turned him down. As usual, "practical" shipbuilders said the ships would be no good...
Summer's onset trapped many a U.S. vacationist flat on his own front porch. The plain citizen was marooned at home, with a well-stuffed wallet. He had plenty of easy-come money to be easygoing with, and not a thrilling thing to spend...
...government contract for $500,000 was easy to snag. Not so easy was the search for a camouflage covering which would be nonreflecting and flexible, yet would take paint so well that the flat-surface buildings, roads, trees, rocks painted on it would trick the eyes of Axis airmen. The company finally hit upon 1½ in.-mesh poultry wire, to which chicken feathers are glued with an asphalt adhesive. Because feathers are tough to handle, stick together on damp days, swirl around in the smallest breeze, methods and machines had to be devised to handle them. A special plant...
...offhand opinion, if a vote were taken [in Canada] tomorrow, there would probably be 40% to 45% of the people vote for a political union with the U.S."* Two days later he raised the estimate to a flat 45%. Many Canadians, he insisted, believe that the standard, of living would go up 25% overnight if there was political union with...
Somewhere in England, hawk-faced Colonel General Jurgen von Arnim, captive commander of Axis North African armies, complained of a soldier's ailment (flat feet). He also showed signs of a beaten general's occupational ailments-mental depression and an anxiety neurosis. For the latter trouble, the British called in a psychiatrist...