Word: fixedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...culmination of a drive initiated soon after last year's Carnival by complaints against "visiting firemen," last night's action by the senior student governing board explained that it had become "necessary for the College to prevent overcrowding of fraternity dances and to fix the responsibility for invited guests...
Colonel Donovan was well aware that he was defending as big a batch of U. S. bigwigs as ever was put on trial. Summoned to Madison last October on the criminal charges of conspiracy to raise and fix gasoline prices were 26 major and subsidiary oil companies, three oil trade journals and 56 oil tycoons. By last week charges had been dismissed against all but 16 companies and 30 men. In 1935 and 1936, according to the Government, these companies and men got together to buy gasoline from independent refiners in the spot markets of east Texas and Oklahoma...
...Kentucky, Cone of Florida, Browning of Tennessee, Hoey of N. C., Johnston of S. C., Rivers of Georgia and Graves of Alabama 1 year ago banded together in a loosely formed "conference" to attract new industries to the South- principally by advertising their States and getting the ICC to fix lower Southern freight rates. Last week, Franklin Roosevelt looked up from his desk to see the smiling faces of seven of the Governors* plus those of his old friends, former Governor Oliver Max Gardner of North Carolina (now a politico-lawyer in Washington) and former Assistant Secretary of Treasury Lawrence...
Undecided, Although utility men do not contest the right of the Government to fix their rates, they argue lustily about the method used to value their properties for rate-making purposes. Instead of reproduction cost the New Deal would like to have valuations based on what the properties would have cost under a policy of ''prudent investment." For obvious reasons the utilities as a rule favor the former, upheld in a series of Supreme Court decisions since 1898. For reasons equally obvious the New Deal has been trying to get the utilities, either through persuasion or compulsion...
Monopoly? Homer Cummings and the Department of Justice have for the last few months been looking into the way the newsprint mills fix what to charge the publishers. Formerly newsprint prices fluctuated as restlessly as any lover of free competition could desire. But in more recent times (and consistently since the newsprint industry tasted the sweets of NRA) it has announced its next year's contract price all at once-and the price is generally the lowest asked by any mill turning out more than 100,000 tons a year. In the majority of cases this mill has been...