Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These words uttered, Eleanor Roosevelt smacked a champagne bottle last week against the nose of the U.S.S. Alazon Bay. Thousands (30) cheered as the flat-topped craft slid into the chill waters of the Columbia River at Vancouver, Wash. The first of many small aircraft carriers which fabulous Henry Kaiser is building had been launched. On neighboring ways sisters of the Alazon Bay, converted from merchant design, stood abuilding. Bald Henry Kaiser promised to slide out three to six each month...
...White House desk the plans for wholesale merchantman-into-carrier conversion. Many an old-fashioned Navy man frowned: slow, small carriers (flight deck: 514 ft.) tote few planes, often must catapult them when there is no strong wind to help. And the pros felt no certainty that the small flat tops, even in droves, would be the answer to the U-boat...
...Kent, Me., with a local airmail and express service operated from the rooftops of post offices and railroad stations in 400 cities and hamlets. Because the helicopter can fly straight up, straight down, backward, forward, horizontally, remain stationary in the air, and be brought to an immediate stop, any flat roof surface no larger than 9 by 12 ft. could serve as an adequate air station. Northeast would connect New England towns by direct helicopter service with main-line terminals served by domestic and transoceanic airlines...
...film is definitely not documentary. It is made on the sound pedagogic assumption that intelligent entertainment is more instructive than flat information. It lacks the final polish which might set it beside such masterpieces of mystery and adventure as The 39 Steps and The Lady Vanishes. But, like those films, it is notable for shrewd casting, unidealized camera work, and imaginative sound. These factors help this military training film to hold and excite a civilian audience, and thus to widen its effectiveness...
...teletypes rap out their spasms of typing in rhythm; in the glass-enclosed room the announcer faces the mike; the newsman is timing his four minutes flat, with a minute commercial; the expert is typing his views of elastic defense; and there sit the bored technicians behind the dials, keeping the pitch of sound in hand, as it goes on the wires to a hundred cities and off the antennae to a hundred million ears. It blats in the taxi, it roars over the public-address system, it speaks in the mess hall, in the midnight coffee stand...