Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reason was that the Congress was sick to its innards of the Administration technique of give-us-billions-and-we'll fix-everything-up. The members felt: 1) that no conceivable number of billions could really roll back prices ; 2 ) what was needed was management, not money. The British subsidy success they understood; Britain imports 35% of its food, and controls can easily be applied from the docks to the stores. The job is as nothing compared to payments to 6,000,000 U.S. farmers...
...Army, lookee here; we had a nice juicy gripe which we've been nursing for five months and were all steamed up about it this week, but it looks like moves are being made to fix things. Of course its you melodious and spirited Stat, Corps boys who are the butt this gripe...
...joke that "Harold has only one speed: low gear." He works hard at his job, including most evenings, and has very little time for fun. When he does, he golfs or bowls a bit, but he prefers to gather his family at the piano for a sing, or to fix things around the house. His hobby is making furniture in his basement workshop. Mr. Smith bought his colonial brick house cheap because nobody had ever been able to make the plumbing and heating and wiring work right. He fixed them up fine...
...Hoover called for consolidation of food production and distribution under one administrator; abolition of parities, of retail and wholesale price ceilings (his answer: fix prices close to the farm); an increase in farm manpower by ordering drafted farmers back to the land-"with their uniforms," when needed...
...hand brake. It's perfectly useless-won't hold at all. And ... I wish they could somehow fix the jeep so that at certain speeds the singing of those heavy tires wouldn't sound like an approaching airplane...