Word: fixedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the chambers of Superior Court Judge Paul Nourse, a Los Angeles Herald & Express reporter telephoned urgently for help last week. "Aggie," he pleaded with City Editor Agness Underwood, "we're in a fix. Judge Nourse has announced that there'll be no pictures taken in court . . . What are our orders: to shoot or not to shoot?" Snapped Aggie: "My instinct is to shoot." Managing Editor Jack Campbell agreed, so long as the pictures were taken when court was not in session. So Aggie rushed down to the courtroom a rugged reinforcement: veteran Hearstling Photographer Perry Fowler...
Abraham Lincoln once defined the proper length for a man's legs: long enough to reach the ground. Nobody has yet found such a simple way to measure the proper size for U.S. corporations. After five decades of sporadic U.S. trustbusting, the problem was still unsolved: Who could fix the boundaries beyond which corporate growth ceased to be healthy and became malignant...
...Rios Bridoux, Bolivian airman, was accused by the Civil Aeronautics Administration of flying in a "careless and reckless manner" and blamed for the Nov. 1 air collision which killed 55 passengers of an Eastern Air Lines DC-4 at Washington National Airport. The CAA, however, has no power to fix final responsibility; that is the job of the Civil Aeronautics Board...
...cutting acreage had flopped. Despite such cuts, farm mechanization, better planting and fertilizing techniques had pushed harvests to the point where ever-increasing surpluses seemed inevitable. When Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan brought out a new plan of control which would, in effect, have permitted the Government to fix the size of the farmer's income right down to the dollar, the powerful American Farm Bureau Federation revolted. It denounced the plan as a "nationalization of agriculture and the distribution system," plumped for a plan that would let the market price have a bigger share in regulating production...
...humility, turned his ebullient cockiness to good account. He showed off his crowd-drawing prowess at close range, played the self-confident candidate to the hilt. Long after he had flown back to São Paulo, a new samba called Adhemar Dá Jeito (Adhemar Will Fix It) blared from Rio's radios...