Word: fixedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...defective transformer brought all passenger elevator service to a dead stop in New York's' 77-story Chrysler Building, marooned 14 passengers in cars between floors. In the crowded main floor lobby Landlord Walter P. Chrysler waited 25 min. while mechanics tried to fix his elevators, finally ascended to his office on the 56th floor in a slow-moving freight elevator. Hugo C. Leuteritz, communications engineer of Pan American Airways, would not wait, stomped up 59 flights to his office...
...most crying governmental need today.) New Jersey's bill created the job of State Fiscal Commissioner, to be appointed by the Governor and solely responsible to him. The Commissioner was authorized to suspend or withhold appropriations, reduce personnel, save much money. The Legislature was still to fix the maximum appropriation but the Governor was to control its minimum spending. Senator Dryden Kuser, the measure's sponsor, hurried across to the Assembly chamber to speed it through. The legislative wags put a cup of ice water in his chair, tossed an exploding firecracker at his feet. As he backed...
Prices & Consumers. Concerning itself chiefly with the paramount issues of wages and re-employment, the I. R. A. had failed to lay down specifications on intra-industry price-fixing, a vital factor to competing producers as well as to consumers. To clear up that Pineapple No. 2 General Johnson announced: "In these codes it will be proper for an industry to say it will not sell below cost of production. But if they use the code to fix extortionate prices. I should have to step in. . . ." Administrator Johnson hoped that industries would keep prices in the background "for at least...
...fairly well set. Government and business were to be made partners by means of a Federal Control Board consisting of four members of the Cabinet and an executive chairman. Through their trade associations a majority of each branch of industry was to draw up agreements to ration production, fix prices, eliminate cut-throat competition, set working hours, establish a fair wage scale. The Federal Control Board would approve such agreements as were in the public interest. Others would be ordered revised or scrapped. The anti-trust laws would be waived to permit each agreement to become effective. Minorities in each...
Germany and Italy also reserved the right to fix surtaxes against a depreciated dollar. Last week Germany raised its duty on lard 50% to 75 marks per 100 kilos...