Word: fixedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wyzanski-McCormack feud is a family affair, arising from a misunderstanding. As attorney general of Massachusetts, McCormack's nephew, Edward McCormack Jr., had prepared a case against 18 road-paving companies, accusing them of conspiracy to fix prices in public highway construction. Mindful of the interests of 39 cities and towns that had done business with the firms, he fired off letters advising each community that it would have to file suit for triple damages before a certain deadline. Only nine of the towns made the deadline- and Wyzanski mistakenly decided that McCormack had somehow finagled the others...
Burens testified that Vinson visited him in his office at the Philadelphia plant in 1958. Burens was at odds with other G.E. apparatus division chiefs, who complained that his refusal to fix prices with competitors weakened the price structure in the electrical apparatus market. According to Burens, Vinson told him, "We cannot go on with this price instability. You are affecting other divisions in the group." Burens says that he replied that he had "tried [price fixing] and found it did not work." Burens says that Vinson replied: "I have assurance this time that it will work. I have talked...
...three Israeli judges who will decide his fate. In the amphitheater at his right will be the world's press, TV and radio correspondents. The latter clearly were the more important audience, for Eichmann's guilt already was clear; real purpose of the trial was to fix forever in the mind of the world the monstrous wartime crimes of the Nazis...
...TIME, Feb. 15, 1960). The third jury brushed aside Finch's claim that the shooting had been accidental, found him guilty of first-degree murder, her guilty of second-degree murder, and both guilty of conspiracy to murder. When the jury meets again this week to fix punishment, Finch could get death on his first-degree murder count, Carole life on her second-degree charge. But on the conspiracy count alone, the jury could sentence them both to the gas chamber at San Quentin. As the two old lovers left the courtroom last week, Finch suddenly took the stunned...
...competitive" giants, General Electric and Westinghouse, and 44 of their executives. Long ago, faced with incontrovertible evidence gathered by the Eisenhower Administration's relentless trustbusters, the companies and individuals had pleaded guilty or nolo contendere (no contest) to charges that they conspired over the past seven years to fix prices and rig bids in the sale of some $7 billion worth of heavy electrical equipment (TIME, Feb. 29, 1960, et seq.). Now the moment of reckoning had come. First before the court came the lawyer for John H. Chiles Jr., 57, a vice president of Westinghouse, to plead...