Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, standing firmly on good Midwestern earth, an American farmer viewed the world beyond the flat horizon. He had just finished three days' work, at an average of 16 hours a day, plowing and planting corn; he had even rigged up lights on his tractor so he could work nights, getting his crops in the ground. He considered the Marshall Plan they were discussing over there in Paris, and said...
Last week Britons decided that if autos were to pull their weight in the export program, the strait jacket had to go. So, beginning next Jan. 1, there will be a flat annual tax of ?10 ($40) on all new autos, regardless of horsepower...
Flossy disagrees with the cynical huckster's view that she is addressing "slobs in a cold-water flat." She scans with a warmly attentive eye her 500 weekly fan letters (suggested one: "Give us lots of love and philosophy"). Mixed in with the love, philosophy, recipes, and "reviews of all the proper books," Flossy also gives them an occasional unscheduled laugh: e.g., when Bing Crosby visited her show, her eyelashes almost fell off when she learned that a baseball game could last longer than nine innings...
...setting classics to 4-4 jazz time and adding banal lyrics, Mossman has made more money rewriting masterpieces than the original composers did in writing them. His most successful swipe was Chopin's Polonaise in A Flat, which he turned into Till the End of Time. It was the best-selling jazz record of 1945.* Taking Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 apart, he extracted Ever and Forever from the first movement, and Full Moon and Empty Arms from the third. He rewrote the Liebestod from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde and called it Time Stands Still...
...ground. But there is no guarantee that the roads will get the 1,600, as all are short of cars. Car production is still low. Manufacturers delivered an estimated 4,000 new freight cars last month, about half of them boxcars. But every month the railroads, run flat-wheeled during the war, have been forced to retire more than 5,000 worn-out cars. Production of enough cars to alleviate the shortage-10,000 a month-will probably not be reached until September. ODT Director J. Monroe Johnson, who had blamed the carmakers' low production on lack of steel...