Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pipsqueak percentage from Russia, the African Gold Coast, Cuba, Brazil, India, the Philippines. Like rubber, manganese has to travel a long, war-periled route to Pittsburgh and Chicago. Enemy control of the seas would put the great steel industry, vital for national defense, in a pretty fix...
Many a doctor will tell you that his calling is a hard one, but at least he can say that he is his own man. He can determine the size and nature of his practice, fix the amount of his fees, take time off for a fishing trip whenever he can afford to (and the state of his patients permits). He dreads the phrases "state medicine," "group medicine," "collective medicine," as devilish harbingers of a day when he will be a mere salaried employe, taking the jobs and patients he is told...
After signing papers that would extradite from Indiana Nancy Miller, Gypsy fortuneteller who allegedly swindled her of $2,500, volcanic Lupe Velez, Mexican cinemactress, erupted in Hollywood: "I'm really going to fix her up. Number one-I punch her in the nose. Number two-I kick her in the teeth. Number three-I pull her hair...
This was obvious preparation for a postwar drive to get U. S. gold for Germany. If Dr. Funk could really peg all European currencies to a Reichsmark "work dollar," he could fix the value of labor in all countries that had to trade with him, would have perfected a streamlined form of international slavery. But though he has demonstrated that Nazi collectivism can wage war, he has yet to show it will work in peace. Gold, he granted, would still have a use in settling international balances. But nations use gold primarily because it is prized by individuals. Dr. Funk...
...gathering itself for its greatest lethal swoop of all. R. A. F. sought to hamper those preparations by seeking out German planes upon the ground-a technique at which the Germans excel and a cardinal practice of the U. S. Air Corps' doctrine: "Find 'em, fix 'em and fight 'em." At Rouen, Merville and Schiphol (Amsterdam), concentrations of German aircraft were destroyed, including troop-carrying groups. At Borkum, Brunsbiittel and Norderney, the Fleet Air Arm joined in trying to disperse the tornado that is coming Britain...