Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this ruinous situation most dealers blame tough local rationing boards, claim that they keep releases far below the law's legal limit. Thus when a busy New York doctor tried to swap his many-miled Studebaker for a 1942 model he was turned down flat. Reason: his old car was registered in his wife's name...
...Johnny "Tarzan" Weismuller's world record of 51 seconds in the 100 yard free style and Jack Medica's N.C.A.A. time of 2 minutes, 9.6 seconds in the 220. That he will succeed in his attempt is a good bet for he has already been as low as 51 flat for the 100 in a relay this season and has hit 2 minutes 9.7 seconds...
...Britain this year horse racing will be limited to 42 days of flat racing (last prewar season: 331) and five race tracks, and horses will be permitted to race only in their own training areas. As compared to 5,500 at war's outbreak, only around 1,250 British bangtails will be in training. In the good old days when the Derby was held at Epsom, some 200,000 railbirds would turn out: last year the Derby, moved to New Market, drew about 15,000. At this year's Derby, on June 13, the turnout is sure...
...years' service). Sailor Humble began his career as a blacksmith's apprentice in Ireland, joined the U.S. Navy in 1890, the year he landed in the U.S. He began to hate the Japs back in 1901, when some Jap cops in Yokohama paddled him with the flat of their swords. "I've never forgotten that licking" he says. "It started smarting again when I heard about Pearl Harbor." To a Navy dentist brooding about his lack of teeth, he observed: "We're going to fight and lick the Japs, sir, but we're not going...
...Corps regulations demanded that crated wings of P-40s and P-39s be placed on end. Estimates along the waterfront were that 30 to 60% more planes could have been carried across the Pacific if wing crates could have been laid flat or on their sides...