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Word: fixes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fingold spoke last night on "Crime and Politics in Massachusetts" at Lamont Forum Room. After the meeting he told the CRIMSON that its $1000 gambling estimate was "very probably right." He added that a bookle "can't operate 24 hours in a hig city without a fix with the police...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bookies in Square May Live On Police Fix, Says Fingold | 5/24/1950 | See Source »

...told 50 persons that "gambling itself isn't dangerous. It's when they start to fix and corrupt that we musts stop them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bookies in Square May Live On Police Fix, Says Fingold | 5/24/1950 | See Source »

American women, observes Vogue severely, are too tense and that is bad-"nervous people acquire a tendency to stare and to clamp their jaws into an ugly, tight line." Vogue could fix that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Let the Jaw Drop | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

...Harvey's Viking was 3,500 ft. over the English Channel, the air was smooth, the sky clear. The plane's youngest passenger, a three-month-old girl, slept in her mother's lap. Hostess Cramsie had just walked to the rear of the plane to fix a cold snack for the other passengers. Later, only one passenger had a definite idea of what happened next. Paul Wolf, holiday-bound with his wife and daughter, thought he saw a pale, blue flash through the porthole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AIR AGE: A Pale, Blue Flash | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

Capped Wells. Phillips and the other oil companies feared the threat to fix their gas prices, but what they feared more was that FPC would use the authority it won over gas as a lever to try to declare the whole oil industry a public utility-and thus control oil prices and profits also. (Since gas is a byproduct of oil development, the big oil companies are also big gas producers.) The result was that many of the big producers refused to sell gas to the interstate pipelines. They pumped the gas back into the ground, sold it only within...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL & GAS: Curse or Blessing? | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

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