Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile construction on the building itself is moving into a new stage as workers begin on the penthouse which will be the crowning glory of the Library, rising one floor from the flat roof...
There were demands for energetic action. One voice raised was that of ex-Secretary of State Jimmy Byrnes. He urged immediate re-enactment of Selective Service, the building of a powerful new Air Force, a flat declaration to the Russians that the U.S. would act immediately in the event of further aggression. Cried Byrnes: "Are we prepared to meet a world crisis...
Challenge. In flat, precise tones Bob Taft methodically marshaled his arguments. ERP, said Taft, could never be justified on purely economic grounds. Neither was it "aimed at opposing any Communistic military attack." The only use that Taft could see for it was as a weapon "against the advance of Communist ideology throughout the world." For that reason, Taft was prepared to vote for it. But he warned that the initial outlay asked by the Administration might cause serious trouble in the U.S. economy. He urged that the figure for the first twelve months be sliced from $5.3 billion...
...White Paper (Economic Survey for 1948) gave them the blackest news yet. Even with Marshall Plan aid, said his report, Britons' standard of living at year's end will be "appreciably, but not disastrously" lower than last year's. Without such aid, Britain would be flat broke (in terms of dollars). Food rations would have to be cut to near-starvation levels. Imports of raw materials would have to be slashed, causing mass unemployment. Britain's whole industrial machine would begin to run down...
United States Television Mfg. Corp. announced a new 15-m. receiving tube (with a flat instead of the normally convex face) which will increase the size of pictures on its sets some 10-20% at no boost in price. And Radio Corp. of America told of a much greater improvement to come (probably by year's end). It has developed a 16-in. steel cathode-ray tube (the basic part of a television set) which can be mass-produced to replace glass tubes now in use, thus lowering the costs of some sets...