Word: fixedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because suicide is almost the gravest sin in the rigid Communist code of political morals, the editor of Youth Pravda (news-organ of the Russian organization corresponding to Boy Scouts) found himself in a tight fix. His hero-worshipping young readers worshipped Vladimir Mayakovsky who had now greatly sinned. It was as though Chief Scout Lord Baden-Powell should sin. But the official poet laureate, Demian Bedny, saved the situation, announced as it were ex cathedra that the poet had shot himself while suffering from "temporary insanity," had died in honor, a proper hero for boys under 14. No mention...
Copper prices for export are fixed by Copper Exporters, Inc., to which belong all the important U. S. copper producers. Acting quite independently, but with a unanimity as perfect as if they had an agreement, these producers fix the price for domestic copper at an equivalent level. The 18? price was started April 15, 1929, after a wave of copper buying had sent the price to 24? for a short period. Even then consumers protested against the price, and with the decline in business last autumn it seemed obvious that a reduction would have to come. Buying became negligible, exports...
Increased registration of fifty percent in seven years has thrown a heavy burden upon many members of the faculty, especially those who direct research. The administrative board is convinced that any restriction on admission must aim to improve the quality of the men admitted rather than attempt to fix a definite number of members of the school...
...accidents is to determine causes and promote aviation by what we learn . . . obtaining all our information from voluntary sources. We cannot compel persons to come forward with it." The inference Secretary Young implied was, that official silence is essential for such cooperation; that his department did not choose to fix a cause for the accident only to have legal procedure haled in and departmental records opened to rifling by shyster lawyers. To promote aviation with knowledge gained after accidents, Secretary Young pointed two instances: the September crash of the T. A. T. liner on Mt. Taylor in New Mexico resulted...
Chicago's fiscal fix last week began to involve the state of Illinois, which derives 60% of its income from the city. Long-legged Governor Louis Lincoln Emmerson went to Chicago with fire in his eye. His complaint: Cook County owes the state $30,000,000 in back taxes. Illinois defaulted on a $300,000 waterway bond issue due Jan. 1, averted serious trouble only by persuading bondholders not to present their certificates for redemption. The state may _ be' unable to meet soldiers' bonus bond's due Aug. i. or to pay $4,856,602 due the Cook County School...