Word: fixedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House Military Affairs Committee prepared to conduct an inquiry of its own. That made three agencies stirring the Self ridge stew; last month the FBI arrested two Wayne County constables, charged them with getting $200 from a Detroit draftee on the promise that friends of theirs at Selfridge could fix him up with a safe, soft berth for the duration...
...proud poppa of a baby girl born on May 9th. So now we can smoke again . . . George Kalionzes's wife wrote to him at last so he promises to not grow a beard to match that moustache and he will not become a hermit . . . The Navy is going to fix up Bernard Bob with a special set of flags to work right form his seat in Code so he won't have to go up to the rostrum between classes . . . The Navy Wives again urge the Lads to trip the light fantastic a la juke box on Monday nights...
...American plan would create a $5 billion stabilization fund, backed largely by gold. The fund would have power to fix exchange rates and to regulate exchange transactions, with the U.S. retaining effective veto power over its decisions. Author of the new proposal was the Treasury's hard-working economist, Dr. Harry D. White...
...indirect Government pressure. Any firm is entitled to tax-deduct, as a business expense, any reasonable amount of advertising expenditure. In the Treasury Department's hands is the power to say what amount is "reasonable." Businesses with no civilian goods to sell in wartime knew the Treasury would fix an unsentimental eye on large amounts of money spent to advertise products no longer being produced. And businesses still making civilian products also knew that the Treasury, aware of inflation, would look down its nose at advertising urging people to spend. Both types of firm, naturally, tended to shape their...
With & Without Bates. Optical orthodoxy is just a finger-snap to many U.S. therapists, whose offices have as many discarded eyeglasses as Lourdes has crutches. They will try to fix almost any eye disorder (except infections, tumors, etc.) by exercise. Some follow the theory of the late Dr. William H. Bates (died 1931) that the six outside eye muscles not only turn the eye but change the shape of the eyeball...