Word: fixedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roger sighted it again and dove to attack from 60 feet. But Roger's bombs stuck, and on his second try shells from the battling sub wrecked his hydraulic system. Over & over he circled to keep watch on the sub while his gunner slithered in oil trying to fix the bomb releases...
...House added a few insults. It pried out of the Banking and Currency Committee a bill to take away OPA's authority to fix oil prices, and hand it over to Petroleum Administrator Harold Ickes. Further, amendments have already been drawn up to remove OPA's power over coal and food prices. If the bill and amendments pass, OPA will be doornail-dead...
...After the scrap I very stupidly hung around for ten minutes or so, trying to determine the damage to the ships. It was not until I started back alone that I really appreciated the fix I was in. I did not even have a watch. . . . I could hear other pilots calling for the field . . . but I could not get anyone to answer...
Justice Attacks. The Justice Department's action is against the South Eastern Underwriters Association (196 stock companies, representing 80% of the fire insurance written in the U.S.). It charges that S.E.U.A. members: 1) fix standard, noncompetitive rates and contracts; 2) ban from reinsurance pools any companies that do not meet their "standards" -a severe penalty in fire insurance, where a large fire can wipe out a single company; 3) boycott nonconforming agents...
...industry insists that the Missouri story is not typical. But it also insists that combination to fix rates is not only typical but a necessary part of the business. The whole elaborate rating-board setup was established precisely because, in the old days, all-out competition involved cutting rates to the point where everyone -including the policyholder-went broke when a big fire came along. In other words, say the fire underwriters, they are not guilty of violating the Sherman Act, because the Act was never designed to apply to them, anyway...