Word: fixedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tanners found themselves in a sorry fix. With leather prices (which had risen 4%) also back under ceilings, they could not process and resell their expensive hides at a profit. So they held them. But neither could they buy any more raw hides; foreign prices were too high and no hides were offered by domestic producers. Despite record slaughterings, packers were reluctant to sell...
...smell out sharp practices. Last week, after three months of stable sniffing, coolheaded, closemouthed Spencer Drayton made his first big news as chief snoop for the Thoroughbred Racing Associations' 37 race tracks. Case No. 1 was the story of three jockeys who "connived and conspired" to fix a race at Florida's Tropical Park last April 17. One of them, Robert Keane, then doublecrossed the others by riding to win, when he was "supposed" to lose. The Florida Racing Commission promptly suspended all three jockeys...
...which he is director general, he was about to submit a plan which would free farming from gambling, he hoped. FAO, now only an advisory body, should enter the operating field, create a central financial system for buying any nation's surplus crops; it would eventually control production, fix prices, do away with the up-&-down cycles...
...COAL MINES. National Coal Board representing industry, science, labor and finance now runs mines. Their job: to step up coal output. To do this, they will increase or limit collieries, develop byproducts, fix production and prices, and spend $600,000,000 for capital equipment in next five years...
Udod's happiness was brief. Serafima made him sleep in a separate room. When the 20,000 rubles were spent, the girl's mother began yearning for the days when there had been no man in the house. Serafima's blue eyes gleamed; she could fix that easily enough. One morning when Udod was buckling his galoshes she bashed him over the head with a sharp piece of iron. Blood splashed on the walls. Serafima, a tidy girl, repainted the room...