Word: fixedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French Government does not fix wheat prices, but from time to time the Ministry of Agriculture announces what wheat is worth, serves notice that if the price falls much below the announced figure the Government will: 1) up the tariff on foreign wheat; 2) reduce the legal proportion of foreign flour in French bread; or 3) cancel wheat import licenses. So successful has been this system that last week French farmers rejoiced in a price of $1.72 per bu. of wheat, while at Chicago the price hovered around 80? in Canada 57? But so peculiar are French politics that last...
...island. He circled his domain in a motorboat, rode over it on horseback. He doctored adults with castor oil and quinine, treated babies according to the rules laid down in Dr. Holt's Care and Feeding of Children. He served as midwife. He showed native fishermen how to fix their nets, farmers how to irrigate their gardens. He dispensed ready but gentle justice...
...good prophet, has not lost it by premature optimism. Last week he called the business cycle "a subject for psychologists rather than for economists," said the Government could serve a better purpose by squashing booms rather than vainly attempting to halt depressions. He too denounced tariffs, artificial attempts to fix prices...
...love with another man's wife or another woman's husband, what are you going to do about it? If you were really in such a fix, you would probably keep it as dark as possible, but if you are a novelist looking for human situations, you will tell as much as you can about everybody concerned, make a book of it. That is what Novelist Sylvia Thompson has done...
Exporters, Inc. was formed in 1926 to fix the price of copper in Europe, and for a long time U. S. producers seemed to have a gentleman's agreement on price. In copper as in other U. S. industries, however, anti-trust laws prohibit definite price agreements. Copper producers now are attempting to curtail production, but the price was back last week to 10? after its recent jump from 9? to 12? (TIME, Nov. 24). The world copper situation is complicated by potential African production which may soon overbalance U. S. curtailment. Tin. Attempts to curb tin production have...