Word: fixedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact is the people have not yet made up their minds that we are at war. . . . They have not buckled down to the determination to fight this war through; for they have got the idea into their heads that we are going to get out of this fix somehow by strategy! That's the word-strategy...
...renovated Supreme Court he met and worsted some of the country's highest-priced legal talent, became a bright sharp sword in the New Deal. He fought for the Government's right to fix wages for workmen on Government contracts, fought for the wages and hours law. He defended the right of the Government to intervene in bankruptcy proceedings. He argued for the spread of Federal control over the nation's waterways. In all his earnest advocacy of these New Deal measures he was upheld...
Editorial writers throughout the land pointed out that Congress was getting itself out on a creaky limb. If Russia were suddenly to go down before the Nazis, just as the U.S. Army was well broken up, Congress would be in a fix much worse than mere embarrassment. Hitler would then have all of Europe and a big chunk of Asia. And the U.S. would be armed only with the tongues of its Congressmen...
...which emerged from that survey was not all green and growing-there were the dispossessed and the unemployed, photographs of sharecroppers' children with beaten, intelligent eyes staring up from Asiatic squalor-but the general impression it communicated was that the U.S. would fix such conditions, and that in spite of everything the U.S. would get along all right. The U.S. that emerged from that issue of FORTUNE-through the articles, the charts, the statistics, the figures, the quotations from Walt Whitman, the photographs of nice big factories, wheat fields, mountains, orange groves, and reasonably good, independent-looking people voting...
...price, allots the material -theoretically at least-to where it is most needed. But who is to set the price of lingerie, women's stockings, boys' hats, golf balls and the million other items that indirectly contribute to the cost of living? In Germany, where prices are fixed, the people are used to taking orders about prices and distribution. Britain is a tight geographic entity where the enforcement of Government price edicts is reasonably simple. But, say the editors, the multiplicity of U.S. life makes it desirable to let the market,, operate as far as possible to fix...