Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from his own fortune. Many shipowners, needing vast amounts of outside capital for new construction, are forced to commit their unbuilt ships to charter in advance, often at poor rates. Unlike them, Bergesen has flexibility, as he puts it, "to build the right ships at the right time, then fix the right charter contracts." Altogether, his wholly self-owned company earned $13.5 million after taxes last year...
...candidate for state assembly, the would-be delegate to the state's constitutional convention, the men who call Kennedy "sir," waited quietly at the back of the platform. Later the senator would read their names into the microphone and fix their morals and mentalities forever "good...
Filed in Pittsburgh's federal district court, the Justice Department's complaint charged that some of the companies .had huddled between November 1960 and mid-1962 to "fix, stabilize and maintain" artificially high prices for inexpensive vitreous-china fixtures, involving some $30 million in sales a year; another group had agreed, beginning in 1962, to drop low-priced (and low-profit) lines of equipment while hiking the tag on the more expensive models, involving about $1 billion in sales all told; company executives had reached their agreements and planned staggered publication of new price lists "in order...
...engines performed obediently, but the third refused to work. The resulting unbalanced thrust threw Surveyor into a tumble that built up to 146 revolutions per minute after repeated but vain attempts to fire the balky engine. As the ship's solar panels whirled wildly, they were unable to fix on the sun and generate electricity, and the spacecraft's batteries began to fail...
...Coast Guard cutter Itasca, standing by at Rowland, received a series of messages from Pilot Earhart reporting that she was unsure of her position and that she was running low on gas. Her last message, delivered in a broken and choked voice, was a plea for a fix on her position. Too late. Itasca failed to get a fix, and so, subsequently, did an armada of U.S. fleet searchers...