Word: fixedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cupola and the great central hall of Berlin's Reichstag Building were gutted by a mysterious fire last winter (TIME, March 6). Ostensibly to fix the blame the Nazi Government scheduled for this week a great trial before the German Supreme Court at Leipzig of five men charged with arson and high treason. Supposed to have thrown the brand was one Marinus van der Lubbe, a Dutchman whom the Nazis call a Communist. The other four prisoners were Ernst Torgler, a German Communist leader, and three Bulgarian Communists. But last week in London, Germany's trial was being...
...Sinkiang. It might skirt Mongolia, drive monotonously over the wind-marcelled sands of the Gobi, end in the basin of the Tarim River which drains futilely into a marsh. Part of the project was to use the futile Tarim to irrigate arid Sinkiang Province, end its paralyzing famines. To fix where the life line will fall, Nanking last week appointed famed Swedish Explorer Sven Anders Hedin to be surveyor-in-chief. Stocky, prosaic Surveyor Hedin planned last week to take over his eight-month...
...1/10 of 1% tax on the capital stock of corporations, with corporations at liberty to fix their own value...
...production quotas, which slashed the U. S. flow more than 300,000 bbl. daily. He banned withdrawal of oil in storage, ordered imports held at the average for the last six months of 1932. But, said Mr. Ickes: "After a final analysis ... I decided we would not attempt to fix prices today. I wanted to see what effect this allocation order would have...
Oilmen heard, however, that the P. C. C. had decided to ask President Roosevelt this week to go ahead and price-fix. The ratio tentatively set is a barrel of crude at 18½-times the price of gasoline per gallon...