Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a four-month investigation of price fixing by auto dealers in major cities, the Justice Department last week got its first indictments. Named by a District of Columbia grand jury were 17 Ford, 14 Chevrolet and eleven Oldsmobile dealers. The charges: setting minimum prices on new cars for several years, as well as agreeing to refrain from price advertising and pegging prices of parts, accessories and service. In addition, Ford and Olds dealers were charged with setting minimum gross profits per sale ($225 for a Ford, $450 for an Olds). The Ford Motor Co. itself was accused of cooperating...
...Ford dealers to make sure that wholesale parts were sold only to bona fide customers. But there was no agreement on the prices to customers. For the dealers, Dean Chaffin, president of the National Automobile Dealers Association, scoffed at the indictment. Said he: "If there was any attempt to fix prices, it was certainly a colossal failure. As every new-car buyer knows, for the past several years the retail prices of new cars have been the prices the customers have negotiated." Nevertheless, the Justice Department plans to continue its price-fixing probe in New York, San Francisco and other...
...pimp." Escape comes in the form of "The Man what brings the heat." Most everybody is on the weed. Nick watches his own mother get hooked and degenerate into a slavering junkie who pads down with anybody who will give her the money for her morning fix. Inevitably, Nick starts to torch up himself. His salvation is Magazine Writer Holloway, who is doing a series of taped interviews on the dope trade...
Almost no one east of the Rockies needs to be told that summer 1958 has been a season of abnormal rain, overcast skies and generally cooler temperatures, but last week meteorologists were ready to fix the blame. Principal culprit: the band of planetary winds that flow eastward across the North American continent at 10,000 to 40,000 ft. The planetary winds ordinarily stay far north in summer, allowing warm air to flow up freely from the South. But this summer, for reasons unknown, the winds have veered far southward into the U.S. middle, dragging with them cold northern...
Rather than dealing with the problem itself, Walker said, "everyone is busy trying to fix the responsibility for its solution on someone else." And while the nation has demonstrated its willingness to protect itself from military aggression, it has not shown a desire to protect itself from "ideoligical aggression...