Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week's Cabinet meeting. President Eisenhower and Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson were all for a flat, unhedged stand against tax cuts. Others, including Vice President Richard Nixon and Labor Secretary James Mitchell, argued for an escape hatch by promising continuous review and possible reconsideration if the recession worsens...
...cried Henry Griffing last fall, when his Oklahoma firm began piping new movies by TV cable into 472 Bartlesville homes for a flat subscription rate of $9.50 a month. But last week Griffing announced that he was giving up; his brand of pay TV has not paid off. Despite a slash in price to $4.95, only 800 of Bartlesville's 28,700 citizens bought-only half the number needed to make cable ends meet. The two main factors that killed telemovies in Bartlesville were competing movies on free TV and the lack of a metering device that would permit...
...calculus for meeting food costs is the College regulation that undergraduates in residence must sign up for twenty-one meals a week, to be paid for at a flat rate. This method of assessing board charges accords with neither the realities of meal attendance or any canons of elemental fairness...
President Juscelino Kubitschek has shipped in 7,000 tons of food and 10,000 tons more is en route. But corruption is commonplace among the local relief agencies that give out the supplies. In one town political bosses pocketed a flat 25% from each man's 30?. In other areas the government farmed out relief projects to private contractors who paid off flage-lados in unwanted goods, e.g., hair oil, then bought it back at half price...
...Hell." At a plump twelve, he made his orchestral debut with the Houston Symphony as a winner of a statewide young pianists' competition, played Tchaikovsky's B Flat Concerto. The same year he played in Carnegie Hall as the Texas winner of the National Music Festival's nationwide competition to uncover talented junior soloists. Mamma Cliburn ferried him out to California to play for Jose Iturbi, and Iturbi promptly proclaimed him "the most talented youngster I've heard...