Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rodeoing," says Linderman, "is about the only sport you can't fix. You'd have to talk to the bulls and horses, and they wouldn't understand...
...admission, I.C.I, now controls almost 100% of British alkali production, has a monopoly in nylon polymer and Nitro-Chalk, produces 60% of all British dyestuffs, and 90% of its chlorine. The critics argue that I.C.I, is too big to be good, can produce or not produce at will, fix prices arbitrarily, that high profits and managerial hardening of the arteries will eventually slow down research and the development of vital new products...
...midst of all the international frothing and fuming, Latin Americans completely neglected to call attention to the best proof of their claim that coffee is simply moving on the age-old tides of supply and demand. The fact is that Latin-American coffee drinkers are in much the same fix as their North American neighbors. In the past two months, the price of high-grade coffee in Rio groceries has leaped from 81? to $1.07 a Ib.; some Brazilians have gritted their teeth and turned to a hitherto unmentionable beverage called tea. In coffee-exporting Costa Rica. President...
...demand for rooms continues to increase, we will be in a bad fix," Sayre said. He foresaw little decrease in the demand for dormitory rooms at present...
SUPREME Court has decided to review its ruling that the Federal Power Commission has the power to fix prices on interstate sales of natural gas (TIME, Dec. 14). The court had originally refused to review the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals, but was asked to reconsider by the Phillips Petroleum Co. and the states of Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico...