Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fioretti, bartender at Manhattan's Stork Club, got a tip from a steady customer-a 1948 Cadillac. The customer was an out-of-town auto dealer, and Tom had always been able to fix him up with a hotel room whenever he came to town...
...said it was not concerned with pricing methods, but only with possible conspiracies to fix prices. Individual businessmen, it said, are free to compute their prices by using basing points, absorbing freight charges, or any other way they please, provided they do not use the system to conspire to fix prices illegally...
...Prime Minister made only two public appearances. The Quebec Bar Association gave him a dinner; he went to the Liberal Reform Club to hand out gifts to 45 orphans. This week, there would be a family farewell party, for which Madame St. Laurent would fix a 29-lb. turkey. Then Grand-Père St. Laurent would head back to Ottawa...
Albert Einstein, 69, checked into a Brooklyn hospital for an operation to fix up a "longstanding abdominal condition." After an hour on the table, he came out in "satisfactory" condition...
...submarine U-47, commanded by Lieut. Gunther Prien, surfaced off the Orkneys. Prien noted in the log: "The English are kind enough to switch on all the coastal lights, so I can obtain the most exact fix . . ." At dawn the next morning the submarine lay submerged at a depth of 270 feet outside Scapa Flow. At 7:15 that night it surfaced and the crew ate a warm supper...