Word: fixing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than the New Deal disciples Jackson and Ickes. When Mr. Ickes hinted that the fascist-inclined plutocracy in America would be defeated by anti-monopoly legislation, he forgot to mention that the government itself tried to foster monopoly and regiment the people under the NRA, which told business to fix its own prices, and under the AAA, in which Washington played Big Bad Wolf to all the pigs and regulated crop planting for the farmers...
...came the Guffey Coal Act (also found unconstitutional) and finally last spring the Guffey-Vinson Act creating a seven-man National Bituminous Coal Commission. This body, with powers much like those of an NRA code authority (minus jurisdiction over labor practices), had as its first big job to fix minimum coal prices. Last week it gave birth to its first set of minima, to the outspoken approval of almost all coal men, the bitter disapproval of coal's best customers-industry and railroads...
...except for narrowly defined neutral zones), but also to control rigidly the credit and finance of the country. Moreover, to keep our economic system from becoming geared to a war-time pitch, with the inflation this entails, it would be necessary to control industrial and agricultural production and to fix all prices. More than this, the government would have to begin even now, in peace-time, to build up a surplus of import raw materials as reserve against war scarcity...
When the graft attaches itself to Clara, Dr. Moran will sever the tube of skin from John's hip, swing the tube across Clara's abdomen, and fix the end in her flesh. When that operation heals, Dr. Moran will perform the final stage of the graft. He will slit the sausage-like tube from end to end, spread it flat upon the girl's abdomen to attach itself soundly...
Until the German dictator came on the scene, he explained, France was in a position both from a political and military point of view to make her will felt. Results of the rapid revitalization in Germany were closely watched in France with the result that the latter came to fix her attention more and more on the Rhine...