Word: fixedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Government Control. Informed Britons realize that their ultimate survival depends as much on a solution as on beating Hitler. They are united on the need, divided on how to achieve it. Advocates of private monopoly want to establish world cartels, fix prices by private agreement, guide the flow of goods, save private enterprise. It is an old, accustomed practice...
Watch Dog in a Fix. Last week's exchanges on dogs and false teeth were merely the first public flicker of an intergovernmental fire that has smoldered underground for months. The Army-speaking for all Administration contracting agencies-has fought to establish its absolute right to terminate war contracts once & for all on its own terms, precisely because it fears that GAO's meticulous audits would "go on ad infinitum." Already in this war $5.9 billion in contracts have been cancelled, as military needs changed. Come peace, some $75 billion, 100,000 prime contractors and more than...
...price ceiling that throttled Wenatchee's boom. Last week the growers had to sell their apples at $2.53 a 44-lb. box, could ask no premium for fancy quality and fancy wrappings. The growers, who always regarded apples as a gamble for high stakes, were in the sad fix of a man watching a casino raided just when the dice were getting...
...last-minute misgiving by the Badoglio Government almost snagged the parleys. The Marshal wanted no announcement of the armistice until after the main Allied landing in Italy. General Eisenhower replied with a 24-hour ultimatum: the Allies must fix the timing of the announcement, or Italy would suffer the full shock of Allied air power. The Marshal bowed. On Sept. 3, while Generals Eisenhower and Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander looked on, the Armistice was signed by U.S. Major General Walter B. Smith for the Allies, by General Castellano for Italy...
Give & Take. Chief difference in the plans lay in the role gold should play. Keynes would relegate it to a secondary role, letting prewar world trade fix the shares (and voting power) of each nation in the bank. Dr. White would base each nation's credit and voting power in the $5,000,000,000 stabilization fund at least partly on the amount of gold that each contributed...