Word: fixe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week at Manhattan's Morton Galleries, interested visitors stood peering into the insides of six hemispheres a yard in diameter, made of papier mache. Each could be raised or lowered on its stand to fix the spectator's eye in the exact centre, even with the rim. Then by rolling his eyes the gallerygoer could see painted on the inside of the hemisphere everything that had come within the painter's field of vision when he looked wide-eyed at his subject. Responsible for this unique artistic experience was a freckled, 31-year-old artist named...
...hens were frightened. Anarchist collectivizers eyed the farm jealously once, but Cannaday remained unintimidated. Believer in the profit system, respecter of the law of supply & demand, he continued to sell his wares to hungry Madrileños, paying little heed to Leftist Spain's campaign to outlaw profiteering, fix prices...
...collection of desperate Southern aristocrats, filibusterers and assorted bad men, their plots and generally seditious hell-raising, Texas looked like just the sort of a place for another rebellion to cut loose. Against this hot-blooded, nearly forgotten background, Texas-born U. S. Marine Major John W. Thomason Jr. (Fix Bayonets!, Jeb Stuart), grandson of Longstreet's Chief of Staff, spins the yarn of Gone to Texas, a pleasant, fast-moving romance about an unpleasant, fast-moving period of U. S. history. Readers will like Author Thomason's numerous pen & ink illustrations; those who liked Gone With...
...Federal Government last week brought to trial in Madison 18 major U. S. oil companies, five of their subsidiaries, three oil trade journals and 57 ranking oilmen.* Under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act all stood criminally indicted for having "combined and conspired, beginning in February 1935 ... to raise and fix prices of gasoline sold in ... ten States of the Middle West...
According to Prosecutor Chaffetz, white-crested Mr. Arnott arranged that the indicted group of companies, which already controlled about 85% of the oil business in ten Middle Western States, should raise and fix the whole price level in the area by buying gasoline at artificially high prices from specified independent refiners who came to be called "dancing partners." But Secretary Ickes in 1934, month after he urged oilmen to undertake pool buying under NRA, wrote as follows to Mr. Arnott: "It has been brought to my attention that the market for gasoline and other petroleum products has recently been disturbed...