Word: fixedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...radio broadcast the Governor explained his program, which includes measures to bring holding companies under full control of the Public Service Commission. But what has attracted the most fire from the power companies are three bills to: 1) authorize the Public Service Commission to fix emergency rates which will return not less than 5% on the company's investment instead of the traditional 8%; 2) permit the Commission to assess costs of valuations and investigations against the companies, and 3) permit a municipality to enter the utilities business after a referendum...
...funnier, by the day, is cast as a well-meaning, self-important hick from Azusa, who discovers life and love in Greater Los Angeles. Side-kick Tracy is as tough and tight-lipped as ever, and seems just the kind of trouble-shooter you'd like to have fix your worst enemy's telephone. The pair offset each other nicely, and one is very glad that the girls they fall in love with are room-mates, because double weddings, even by a J.P., are such...
...about the ones who had found what seemed to be ambergris. First, he warned, he had tested only a sample. It was by no means sure that all the stuff was ambergris. Even if it were, there might be no ready market for so much of it. Used to "fix" the odors of other substances, only minute quantities of ambergris are needed by perfume makers. Lately synthetic substitutes have been developed. Said Chemist Smith: "There is potential tragedy in this situation. I have refused to take money for analyses from these needy people until an authentic report on the commercial...
...months before any contract expires, the Interstate Commerce Commission should pass on its public convenience and necessity and fix its future rates...
...Senate Banking & Currency Committee last autumn that he was receiving $100,000 per year "retirement pay" from Chase National Bank, President Roosevelt announced he had begun studying legislation to control high salaries by taxation. He had already approved Federal Rail Coordinator Eastman's "suggestion" that railroad presidents fix their income at $60,000 or less. Then, on orders from the Senate, the Federal Trade Commission sent a questionnaire to some 2,000 corporations whose stock is listed on the New York Stock and Curb Exchanges. Resultant information: executive salaries...