Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yugoslavia was the guest of anti-Communist Britain, the first Red chief of state ever to visit the country. For both guest and hosts, it was a visit not of sentiment but of self-interest. The British hoped to exploit Tito's break from Moscow and to fix him solidly in the anteroom of the Western alliance. Tito was out to get political and economic value for his heresy against Moscow...
...iron and steel board, responsible to Parliament, will be set up to retain virtually all the powers over the industry that the government has now: the board will fix prices, regulate capital development, even import raw materials if it thinks they are needed...
...Caius answered:] "It is the duty of the government to provide the necessities of life at a price the poor can afford; once you start doing that you have to fix the price of a good many other things as well, and compel people to work at the unpopular trades that lose money...
After the 1951 basketball-fix scandals were exposed-with Madison Square Garden as the center of the infection-some sportwriters glumly announced that the big-time game was dead for a long time to come. The report was, as it turned out, greatly exaggerated. Last week a packed house of 18,496 rooters, biggest basketball crowd ever at the Garden, turned up for the final of the National Invitation tournament. Before the final, the fans impatiently sat through a consolation game between Duquesne and Manhattan. By coincidence, though his team lost, the individual star of the consolation game (27 points...
Advocates of "fair-trade" laws did not lose heart after the U.S. Supreme Court knocked out fair-trade price-fixing laws in 1951. Last year they got a bill through Congress which nullified the court's decision. It made state fair-trade laws binding on retailers, whether or not they had signed agreements to observe manufacturers' list prices. This seemed to fix everything up nicely...