Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have to be worked out. Costs and investments vary widely, since some are lucky enough to hit a high average of producing wells, while others sink large sums into a big proportion of dry holes (the industry averages one producing well out of nine). The FPC may have to fix separate rates for each field or geographical area, or it may follow a precedent it set two months ago in fixing rates for pipeline companies that produce some of their own gas. At that time the FPC abandoned the investment formula for gas produced by pipeline companies...
...came to make an exposure, all he had to do was to kneel in his tiny darkroom tent, sensitize a glass plate, place it in a holder and rush it to his bulky camera before it had a chance to dry. Then he had to develop it immediately and fix it and wash it right on the spot. This was the same laborious process used by Mathew Brady's photographers in the Civil War, a dozen years before...
...California: "It has marvelous climate and scenery. The people and architecture leave something to be desired, but we'll fix that in time...
...same reason for refusing to build in the St. Louis area: "We just can't afford the payoff." The payoff was to corrupt A.F.L. building-trades union bosses and business agents. The racketeers, often in league with local subcontractors, concentrated on jobs where there was a fixed completion date, held them up with featherbedding, slowdowns and jurisdictional disputes until the completion deadline got close. Then they made themselves "available" to "fix things up" for the builder-at a price. Frightened contractors told Baldwin that those who refused to go along with the racket were often slugged...
...prosecutor to pin-point areas in which incriminating evidence could be found. Dean Griswold make a similar assertion with respect to the questioning of a witness about Party membership in each of a series of consecutive years. This contention presumes that the individual has been "in such a fix" that he could not safely answer all the questions, and at a time sufficiently recent to justify a reasonable belief that his testimony might furnish a basis for prosecution. In any event the argument would seem to have no application to a refusal to answer the simple first and second questions...