Word: fixedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meat packers found themselves jammed between the ceiling and the rising cost of meat on the hoof. A black market sprang up. The Government tried to fix that by giving the slaughterers' subsidies. Then it put a ceiling on livestock. Cattle raisers bemoaned high feed costs. So the Government gave them subsidies...
...Quill, had threatened to strike (TIME, March 4). When Mayor William O'Dwyer and public opinion stood firm, Mike Quill finally backed down. But the city's victory was only partial-it had just gained a calm opportunity to ponder the subway's physical and financial fix...
...Mayor LaGuardia said on the air Sunday that he was on Bill O'Dwyer's side in the transit crisis. He certainly should be-since he's the fellow who got Bill O'Dwyer into his present fix. ... If O'Dwyer gets into trouble, LaGuardia can always quote him another fable or two in PM. Fiorello won't have to take...
...repatriation of men against their will and the refusal of the right of asylum ... to those who, for grave reasons, wish to fix their residence elsewhere...
...that way' went the rounds of the mountains and valleys along with the news about the contagious abortion in the Helwig herd of Jerseys and the impotency of the Green bull." " 'Drop up some evening with six dollars,'" said the abortionist, " 'and I'll fix you good as new. . . . Took care of Mrs. Smith when she was six months along and got rid of three for my own wife at three months. Just a plain old-fashioned buttonhook...