Word: fixedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...highest in Waban natives early this morning, in the traditional battle for the class's first husband, foremost in the thoughts of every maiden filly entered. Every year just before the hoop classic word leaks out that groups of maidens have put their heads together to set up a fix, in which some girls will block while one girl rolls through to victory...
...Rain of Questions. Harry Truman's damndest, as he saw it, took in a lot of territory. Aside from the prevention of World War III, he thought, the greatest accomplishment of his Administration has been keeping employment at full tilt. Said he: We have been able to fix the income of the country so that it is fairly distributed -an even economy, well-balanced so everybody has a fair chance. And after the rearmament program is finished a Point Four program-if it raises the standards of living of the underdeveloped parts of the world at least...
...Department, which had warned businessmen to abide by the Supreme Court anti-Fair Trade ruling, filed an antitrust suit against Chicago's Sunbeam Corp. (Mixmasters, Shavemasters), which had tried to shut off all supplies to price-cutters. The charge: Sunbeam and its 1,200 distributors had "conspired" to fix and control their prices, specifically in the District of Columbia, Vermont, Texas and Missouri, none of which has Fair Trade laws. In the absence of such laws, charged the trustbusters, Sunbeam's minimum-price contracts violated the Sherman Antitrust Act. Sunbeam, claiming that price-cutting, far from being good...
...this, Detroit Edison can thank not only Thomas Edison, but the canniness of the late, Glasgow-born Alex Dow. As Detroit Edison's president for 28 years, Dow was shrewd enough to enlarge the company's policy of giving away free bulbs, set up repair crews to fix electric cords and to repair appliances, all without charge...
...favorite whipping boy, could appreciate the tremendous good will Detroit Edison had built with its customer services. To look after them, more than 500 of the company's 11,625 employees are kept busy; 47 service trucks cruise the Detroit area night & day to replace lamps and fuses, fix appliances, install lead-in wires for electric stoves, etc. For new homes the crews install up to 40 light bulbs free, thereafter replace any that burn out, requiring only the old bulb or the metal end in exchange...