Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fix minimum export prices, thus protecting the higher-priced Belgian goods...
...credit. If it wants to tighten up on housing credit, it can boost rates on Government-insured mortgages; if it wants to restrict bank loans, it can boost reserve requirements. But it has had no direct control over consumer credit since the Federal Reserve Board's power to fix minimum down payments and maximum payoff periods (Regulation W) expired last year...
Offhand, this novel has what seems a pretty used-up plot, the story of a tarnished Cinderella. Senorita Amparo Emperador was very beautiful, very poor, and an orphan, without beaux or hope of dowry. In Madrid, in 1867, that was about as bad a fix as a girl could find herself in. So Amparo had become a slavey for her distant, stingy relatives, Rosalia and Francisco Bringas, who kept her jumping from dawn to dusk and repaid her with spoiled food and a few rare pesetas...
Longing Eye. The next step Benson's Agriculture Department must take into the wheat field is to fix acreage allotments for individual wheat farmers. Benson's staff is delaying that step until Congress acts on bills that will increase the total allowed U.S. wheat acreage. If the limit is raised, the acreage cuts (which would average 30% under the present limit) would not be so severe. After the department sets farm-by-farm allotments, wheat farmers will vote on whether they want the quotas. If two-thirds approve, all wheat grown on allotted acreage will be supported...
...Louis and his wife Maria did not forget Bisaccia, and they did not forget that the bell of Bisaccia would not ring: long before, it had split during an earthquake, and no one had bothered to fix...