Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since "quiz" became television's own four-letter word, networks have sought the fix-free format-a jackpot show that could convince audiences of its incorruptibility. The trick lay in finding contestants whose honesty could not be doubted. CBS decided to try the nation's scrub-faced youth, began a sprightly Sunday half-hour intellectual basketball game called College Bowl...
...nailed a spot on the next program, on April 12 (v. the University of Minnesota), will stay on until defeated. The only cash prizes: $1,500 for the Barnard scholarship fund, $500 for Loser U.S.C.-both from Sponsor General Electric. Participants get no money at all. No cash, no fix...
...with the Contests. Each of the twelve arrested last week faces a sentence of up to five years in prison, up to $10,000 in fines. But the gulled newspapers-and particularly the puzzle syndicates-must assume a big share of the blame. The puzzles were ripe for fixing, and in some cases newspapers, e.g., the Milwaukee Sentinel, ignored tips that the fix was on. And neither of the two syndicates-General Features and Superior Features-that sold services to the phony paper in Ontario bothered to check the client's false credentials...
...that labor unions are entitled to exemption from the Sherman Act under the Norris-La Guardia Anti-Injunction Act only so long as they confine themselves to negotiating higher wages, or other legitimate labor objectives. When they step over the line and begin to use labor union power to fix prices and allocate markets, then the Justice Department intends to wheel up the big guns of the Sherman...
Actually, the Antitrust drive to stop fixing prices and allocating territories in the garment industry began a long time ago. In the Truman Administration the Antitrust Division indicted the Women's Sportswear Manufacturers Association for a conspiracy to fix prices and funnel orders to Association members designated by the union as in good standing. But at that time it was not the division policy to name I.L.G.W.U. as a defendant in the suit, only the employer group. Says Bicks: "We waited years for the unions to clean up this kind of situation. They did not. So we finally indicted...