Word: fixe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Will Fix Election Procedure...
...sense of direction was aroused to a small degree by a statement which appeared in TIME (Nov. 4) concerning the "Perambulating Pole." According to TIME, Roald Amundsen found the magnetic pole slightly northwest of where Sir James Ross had made the first reliable fix. Yet TIME plots Amundsen's fixing one degree, 15 minutes east of Ross's!! Apparently TIME is perambulating a bit itself...
...like this: the Big Four's Foreign Ministers in Manhattan could write all five peace treaties (Italy, Bulgaria, Hungary, Rumania, Finland) if they could write the Italian treaty; they could write the Italian treaty if they could agree on Trieste; they could agree on Trieste if they could fix the U.N.-appointed governor's powers; they could fix the governor's powers if they could decide who would boss Trieste's police. And nothing was lost so far, except a lot of diplomatic blood, sweat, tears, toil. Cheap at the price, in other words...
...Permission for Russian cooperatives to make profits as high as 20%-and give them to their members as bonuses; 2) special tax concessions; 3) promise of over $500 million in favorable long-term credits to encourage speedy expansion; 4) freedom to fix their own prices at levels far higher than those of state stores selling rationed goods; 5) right to buy their materials direct from farms, mines and factories (hitherto a state monopoly...
...first reliable fix on the pole's position was made in 1829-32 by Sir James