Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan after nine months of grand jury hearings was the boss of Local 25 of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, the biggest local in the blousemaking industry. The Justice Department charged that the I.L.G.W.U. local took part, along with three trade associations, in a conspiracy to fix prices of ladies' blouses, a $300 million industry, and to allocate business among blousemakers. Also charged with criminal conspiracy was Harry Strasser, a partner with slain Gangster Albert Anastasia in a dress company. According to Justice, Strasser twice played a prominent role in lining up blouse subcontractors to join...
...little ruefully. "The party turns into a request session and it's no fun for me. It's my business now and I don't like to be asked to work in my spare time. It's like inviting a plumber to dinner and then asking him to fix the john before he leaves...
...Before we can be in a position to fix individual responsibility," the Deans went on to say, 'it is necessary to accept corporate responsibility. Vigorous investiga- tion is being conducted to determine individual responsibility, and appropriate further disciplinary action will be taken in all such cases...
...evidence of fix accumulated, one defendant already stood accused and convicted. That is the newspaper-puzzle gimmick itself, which, in its hot pursuit of quick circulation, has always been a highly questionable journalistic practice...
...years, the Seattle Times' s Prize Cross word contest has pulled 19,845,000 entries, has paid off fewer than 200 winners. Circulation gain, not necessarily attributable to the contest: 10,000. *Another kind of fix has plagued the Pionc.fr Press. A few years ago some winning contest entries came from two postal clerks who. working independently of each other, waited until solutions were printed, then submitted entries with phony, before-the-deadline postmarks...