Word: fixedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Help Wanted" signs were hung out by Philadelphia brewers swamped with job-seekers. Press pictures appeared of huge crowds lined up for work before the Anheuser-Busch plant in St. Louis. ¶In Manhattan the fashionable Waldorf-Astoria began to fix up a "tavern" for beer-drinkers. The Fifth Avenue Hotel planned to convert a restaurant into an imitation sidewalk café and call it the Roosevelt Room. In Milwaukee where factory whistles and fire-engine sirens welcomed the return of beer the famed old Blatz Hotel revived its palm garden for German beer drinkers. ¶Moaned Anti-Saloon League...
...Fix disability pensions at from $6 to $275 per month, death pensions from...
With insurance companies suspending farm foreclosures and Federal agencies promising further relief to the mortgage-ridden West, hardly anybody last week noticed a fix that mortgages had got a group of New York companies into-until they slipped out of it. In Manhattan Owen D. Young announced the formation of a Realty Stabilization Corp., with a capital of $10,000,000 and an R. F. C. credit of $100,000,000, to rehabilitate the city's real estate and make it selfsupporting. Immediate purpose of the corporation, however, is to tide guaranteed-mortgage companies through the embarrassing task...
Leading New Orleans bankers and State officials went into an all-night huddle. President Hecht, a swart, smallish man with glistening black hair and a thick cropped mustache, was in a tight fix. For years he fought branchbanking as "financial feudalism" and ''economic vassalage." Last autumn when he was elected second vice president of the American Bankers Association, thus assuring him of the presidency in 1935, he ate his words and said: "We cannot stem the tide of economic events." A Bavarian from Ansbach, he learned banking in Chicago, went to the Hibernia 26 years...
...tariff rate would not fix the excise tax. During an initial marketing period after the bill's passage, the following would become "fair maximum prices...