Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drea Doria's sinking (TIME, Aug. 6) came to an abrupt halt last week. In a quiet, unpublicized meeting held under the stern eyes of their London underwriters, the owners of the Stockholm and Andrea Doria reached an out-of-court settlement that 1) ended their attempts to fix the blame on each other, and 2) made it possible to establish a fund for payment of third-party claims, e.g., claims by passengers and shippers for injury and loss of life and property...
...deal was the first major pipeline project since the U.S. Supreme Court gave the FPC power to fix the price on the resale of gas in the field by pipeliners in 1954 (TIME, June 21, 1954). Murchison and friends managed to get around price-fixing rules because there is no clause in the Natural Gas Act that keeps consumers from buying gas directly from the wells and setting their own prices. Two big Florida utilities, Florida Power & Light and Florida Power Corp., will buy 60% of the pipeline's daily 250 million-cu.-ft. capacity directly from Texas...
...Elvis' Big Brother Vance as he stands before his father's grave: "That is always the way. We go off and fight for four years and they (the Yanks) kill him at home." Humor--co-stars Richard Egan and Debra Paget gritting their teeth as Elvis sings "Yam Ganna Fix Dis Old House," a rock-and roll song (presumably about the South's reconstruction period). And, of course, Tenderness--Elvis (writhing from the hips as he dies): "Is Everything going to be all right...
...There is one way we could fix that prop," says co-pilot Joe, who is on his first regular fight since graduating from pilot school...
...powerfully than ever in Rome's market. And just in time, too. Rome's mayor was preparing to investigate profiteering in the market, threatened her and all her kind with price control. Nannarella merely snorted. "Let him. We live by our wits here, and no mayor can fix them. My child isn't going to have the hard time that I had." As for the consumers who complained about her prices, "What do they expect?" said Nannarella. "Where are they at 4 o'clock in the morning? If you want to lie abed, you have...