Word: fixedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...court-martial instead, flying officers who agree with him have kept their opinion to themselves. The Air Corps, controlled by groundling officers of the General Staff, rocked along as a branch of the Army, and in 1940's emergency it found itself in the Army's fix: a long way from M-Day trim. But many a flying man could see, close ahead, the day when Billy Mitchell's demand for separate existence would be outmoded. For the inevitable result of the growing strength and tactical importance of military aviation was that soon it would have...
ROME--Germany has assumed control over the entire production and distribution of Rumanian oil and will fix the quotas for such nations as Greece and Turkey, the newspaper of Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Clano said today. The paper said the Nazi military activities in Rumania were necessitated to provide defense of Axis interests in the face of British imperialism...
...first task of the conscientious objector is to fix in his own mind what his conscience will permit him to do. Then he must inform himself exactly as to the type of work involved in the various jobs that will be thrust at him, so that he will not blunder into something that violates his convictions. Having done this, he is prepared to throw his full weight against the war system...
...Woolton had already provided 20 centres for distributing hot meals of beef stew, rice pudding and tea at eightpence each. London housewives whose stoves might not be functioning at home could go to municipal kitchens to cook meals. Women of the National Conference of Labor urged the Government to fix food prices, claiming that British living costs have risen 32% since break of war. Wages have also risen. With Britain now spending on her war effort more than five times the national income, some economists held that the Kingdom was already suffering inflation. John Maynard Keynes, the economist who fathered...
...would have to hire more men (71.1%), get a longer work week (38.3%), curb the labor unions (29.5%), train skilled labor (30.6%), increase the production of supplies (26%), get new financing (19.9%). If rearmament or war started a sharp rise in prices, some (34.7%) executives thought the Government should fix prices, others (24.9%) favored a voluntary move on the part of trade associations to hold prices down, others (26.7%) were willing to let prices find their own levels...