Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Canavan suggests a flat rate of $28.75, $12.55 less than the present Cambridge rate of $41.80. Other Massachusetts rates range from a high of $56.30 in Revere to a low of $16.20 in other communities...
...remaining four claim that when they reached Philadelphia yesterday morning, they called a friend and had him send a wire to Dribben: "Clearing Philadelphia. Only one flat tire. The Boys." They said they did not have enough money to send the wire themselves. The friend sent it collect...
Harold W. Canavan, a Revere representative in the state legislature, is circulating an initiative petition to repeal the present zone system of auto insurance rates and substitute a flat rate for the whole of Massachusetts...
...another Times ad, Callahan asked plaintively: "What's the matter with Montana? . . . Don't they like flats in Montana? . . . Aren't legs a national tradition? Montana, Montana, please write." Wrote one embittered Missoula man: "I don't think our women need these flats. Their feet are flat enough . . . Most of them go barefooted out here...
Callahan finally had an answer to his question, in proud local ads by stores in Billings, Helena and Lewiston. Example, in the Billings Gazette: "There is nothing the matter with Montana . . . Montanans merely buy their 'flat-heeled pretties' at the Hart-Albin...