Word: fixe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Association, an organization of some 5,000 independent fishermen who last year caught $15 million worth of shrimp (and some oysters) in the Mississippi Sound for sale to packers at Biloxi, Pascagoula and Pass Christian, Miss. The Government charged that the association and its officers used "coercive practices" to fix prices, and "force and violence" to cut off supplies of shrimp to dealers who did not meet its terms. By these methods, said the trustbusters, shrimp prices were kept high...
...ranch. Its teacher: Mrs. Joseph Pojar. Its pupils: five little Pojars. Near Broadwater, one 82-year-old teacher has to live in the school, cook her meals on a hot plate, sleep on a cot pitched beside her desk. Near Kimball, Teacher Helen Layer is in the same fix: she has one room, one stove, one pupil...
...rifle shooting, squash, handball and horsemanship. He was even pretty good with bow & arrow. But two years after he hung up his cleats, a reporter discovered him working with a pick & shovel for $4 a day. Jim's fondness for firewater had helped to get him in the fix. Ever a happy optimist Jim figured, "I'll come out of this, and I'll do some saving when I do." Ten years later-after Jim had sold the movie rights to his life story for $1,500-his second wife charged him with "excessive drinking," divorced...
Five weeks ago, U.S. Ambassador Loy Henderson brought Offer No. 6. It was by far the best. Britain offered to drop its legal blockade of Iran's oil, asked in return that an impartial third party be chosen to fix the compensation for Anglo-Iranian. The U.S. added its own bonus: a promise to purchase $130 million worth of Iran's oil, $50 million of the amount to be advanced immediately on account...
...heart attack is the tipoff to the people who have been wondering how long he can keep up his pace. The studio hires stand-ins to play Bart's fighting parts, and younger bruisers are secretly screen-tested to step into his shoes. The finality of his fix strikes him when he boards a train at Los Angeles and realizes that "not even a Brownie snapshot camera was in sight...