Word: fixe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that our press gives too much space to our defects and sometimes even (involuntarily) plays them up. Possible and even probable. And this of course is bad. You insist, therefore, that we should balance (I would have said overlap) our shortcomings with our achievements. We shall without further delay fix that up. Have no doubts about that...
Nevertheless, even Taft wondered if "the present price of steel may not be too high. Perhaps it was too high before the last increase." Nor did Taft ignore the question of "whether the U.S. Steel Corp. is so predominant that it has power to fix prices and at least modify the usual effects of competition." If that were found to be the case, Taft suggested a solution that outdid even O'Mahoney's proposals. "We should consider," he said, "whether we should place a limit on the proportion of any industry which can be controlled by one company...
...obligingly accommodated himself to man's changing tastes and needs. Refrigeration put an end to the small-boned, fat-heavy hogs; consumers wanted leaner meat. But hog farmers, working to breed their animal out of the barrel and into the icebox, soon found themselves in another fix: the big-boned hogs of the early 20th Century were shorter on fat all right, but their giant hams were sized to feed an army rather than a family, and they were stringy besides. After World War I, hog breeders went to work again and finally molded today's trim, streamlined...
...asked for 80 feet of seven-eighths inch sisal rope. The woman clerk who waited on him paid scant attention to the $11 sale. So far as she knew, the wispy customer was just another farmer, in town for the day, buying rope to break a balky horse or fix a hay lift in the barn...
...poisoned chop, John L. Lewis rejected President Truman's proposal for a yo-day truce and a three-man fact-finding board to settle the eight-month-old coal dispute. Wrote Lewis: "The mineworkers do not wish three strangers, however well-intentioned, but necessarily ill-informed, to fix their Wages, decree their working conditions, define their living standards and limit the educational opportunities of their children...