Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...million violators each year are to mend their ways," said White, "it is wholly clear that we cannot tolerate the fix, that we cannot run traffic courts for revenue rather than for the purpose of influencing behavior, that serious violators must face judges. Their procedures should be upgraded and modernized to dispense justice on the one hand and to have the desired impact on the violator on the other hand...
Detroit's Bendix Corp. is probably best known for a product it has never made. Confusing the $742 million science and aerospace company with the makers of the old Bendix washer,* housewives telephone company headquarters asking for repairmen to fix their washing machines. Bendix Corp. makes just about everything else, though, from bicycle brakes to missile-tracking systems. It embraces 373 different product lines, 28 divisions, nine U.S. subsidiaries and 22 affiliated companies in ten countries. Last week the company drew yet another operation under its wing: for $5,300,000 worth of stock, it acquired Besly-Welles Corp...
...think Government payments have something in common with the narcotics habit," he said. "Once on the habit, the victim becomes convinced he cannot live without the drug. In the jargon of the underworld, he's hooked. He'll do most anything to get his next fix, his next check. The pushers, in this case the Government bureaucrats and committees, constantly work to get more farmers hooked. The more that are hooked, the more the payments are, and the more assurance of their jobs and the perpetuation of the machine in power. Well, that...
...occur in New York City on an average day: one murder, four rapes, 22 holdups, 41 assaults, 117 grand larcenies, 123 burglaries. Taken to court, Mrs. Placente ended the day with a trial date in November. It seems likely that many more scofflaws will soon be in the same fix...
...easy as $500 down for a $20,000 house and lot, lowers FHA down payments for all buyers on higher-priced homes, lets the Government underwrite land-purchase and development loans for builders. The Government will provide urban-renewal payments to individual low-income families that want to fix up their own places, will also give low-income families rent supplements that it hopes will encourage the creation of as many as 375,000 new apartments. The construction industry, now running 3% ahead of last year, will get an additional stimulant to order steel, concrete...