Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stores (Hecht Co. and Woodward & Lothrop) were charged with ceiling violations. In 21 war-plant areas, 60 landlords were haled into court for violating rent ceilings. Throughout the land, OPA brought suit to enjoin 116 meat packers from "upgrading" standard cuts of meat, warned 4,000 retailers to fix their prices or else. These were not random actions but test cases carefully picked for a showdown on whether OPA is really price boss for the duration. For OPA investigations have shown that out of 12,000 groceries and butchers 40% are ceiling violators, and that 70% of 500 East Coast...
...Attempts to fix prices by general retail and wholesale ceilings were made by every nation in the last war and proved failures because of mounting confusion, shifts in production costs, etc. The alternative-to fix prices of a given commodity or raw material at the source of production and to regulate the subsequent percentage addition for processors and the markup for merchants-retards price rises, avoids stifling production, is easier to police...
...Mass treatment of the wounded is greatly expedited. The first day the wax was used at Mare Island, an orderly treated Dr. Pendleton's group of patients in an hour and a half, while in the next ward five nurses-using other methods-took four hours to fix the dressings on a like number of patients...
...James Warburg), representatives of the Army (Colonel Oscar Solbert), Navy (Captain Homer L. Grosskopf), State Department. The board's job is to sift the vast portfolio of U.S. Government information on domestic and foreign events, pass it on to the operations division in the form of directives that fix the U.S. propaganda line for each country...
Damn it, men, things are in a hell of a fix and a tough job's got to be done, he said in substance after Franklin Roosevelt and Donald Nelson named him tsar to produce and conserve rubber. The actual words are the ones the hardboiled, red-faced, Irish Bill Jeffers spoke one day in January 1922 to trainmen clustered around a red-hot, pot-bellied stove in the Hanna, Wyo. depot...