Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President's budget was based on a flat statement: "We are determined to pay whatever price we must to preserve our way of life...
...force increases in OPA's price ceilings, starting a cycle of inflation. Other tax possibilities: > Corporation taxes, now 24% (normal) plus 6% or 7% surtax, may be upped to 30% plus more surtax. > A withholding tax on personal incomes may be levied. This would operate by a flat percentage deduction from salaries and wages. By levying a 1% tax on all incomes, at the source and without exemptions (by withholding money from payrolls), Congress could raise about 560 million dollars. Great probability: a 5% withholding tax as an offset against the following year's income taxes-or even...
...Retreat. Manila was an unequivocal liability. It lies in flat land with its back to the bay. It could be only a trap-a soft spot for a wedge to be driven home by the Jap to split the Army. As he had long planned to do in a last-ditch fight, General MacArthur abandoned Manila, already declared an open city, already heavily bombed...
Working with the same cold precision that has marked Commando successes in France and Libya (see p. 25), the raiders took over in 15 minutes flat, destroyed a radio mast and transmitter, shot down a lone plane offering resistance, sank a German patrol boat, took several prisoners including six quislings. The Commandos did not lose a man. Simultaneously another Commando unit made successful raids on Vaagsoy and Maaloy, islands several hundred miles south of Lofoten...
...tools, the milling machine. The milling machine, holding a chunk of metal in a movable bed, works on three sides of it at once with as many as eight multi-toothed rotating cutters. First big break for K. & T. was the auto industry's need for highly finished flat or grooved surfaces-the kind of work millers do best...