Word: fixedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Allison's coworker, Italian-born, Nobel-Prizeman Enrico Fermi, was in the same fix. Of him a colleague said: "He's a tougher character and good at saying no. He refused to do administrative work. He doesn't have a phone and refused to have a secretary. General Groves hates my guts. But he hates Fermi's guts worse...
...above all he would be remembered for his work during the war years when, as F.D.R.'s agent, he was the confidential troubleshooter sent to fix the hotboxes and burnt-out bearings of the worldwide coalition which won World War II. He was the prodder and pusher for more war production, the passionate pleader for unity, the go-between from Roosevelt to Churchill and Stalin. He was and regarded himself as an instrument, with the selflessness of an instrument...
...Truman Administration for the present labor troubles: "When V-J day arrived, the Government hastily removed the controls and supervision over wages and labor conditions ... at the very time that constructive economic leadership was vitally needed. . . . Then belatedly [it] went to the other extreme and sought to specifically fix wage rates by its own decision. . . . The role of government in a free people . . . should be to bring together all of the economic groups involved and the leadership of both political parties and ... to develop agreement on a basic economic policy...
...made Variety the richest word-coining mint of the century, to the bafflement of laymen and the delight of language fans like H. L. Mencken and G. B. Shaw. Some of its headlines (such as its 1929 crash flash, WALL STREET LAYS AN EGG, and its STIX Nix Hix Fix, when bucolic cinemas' flopped in the hinterland) have attained a kind of backstage immortality. So have flopperoo, push over, palooka, scram, to click; and such trade phrases as "boff" (a variation of sock or punch) for smash hit, "preem," as a verb meaning to stage a premi...
...Manhattan's Hotel Lexington, representatives of ten airlines from eight different countries gathered. It was the first meeting of the North Atlantic Conference of the International Air Transport Association. Some of the airmen had traveled over 4,000 miles to attend this long-awaited meeting to fix minimum Atlantic fares. It lasted just five minutes. Reason: the Civil Aeronautics Board had not granted U.S. airlines permission to participate...