Word: fixing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trucking is still the province of nearly 300,000 independent trucking outfits. For years Mr. Keeshin has been trying to persuade truckmen to stop cut throat competition, fix rates. Says he : "There simply was not sufficient honor among them to stick together." Like most big truckmen, he finally asked for Federal regulation. Last week Mr. Keeshin was prime proof of the contention that the new Motor Carrier Law, placing trucks under the Interstate Commerce Commission (TIME, Aug. 19), will help both railroads and big trucking companies at the expense of small, hand-to-mouth trucksters...
...these contentions aside, in Hartford, Conn. last week U. S. District Court Judge Edwin Stark Thomas, who four years ago cracked down on another meddler with the Fink process, found GM and the others guilty of infringement, enjoined them to stop, ordered a special master to examine profits and fix damages...
...They must sign contracts promising to plant wheat acreage for the next four years of any size that AAA may fix within a range of 75% to 100% of their 1930-32 average...
Manufacturers of soda water pumped so much water out of Saratoga Springs for the sake of the carbonic acid gas that when Dr. Simon Baruch got there the bathing establishments were in a sorry fix. Dr. Baruch found that to take a carbonated water bath he had to fill the tub from bottles of expensive Seltzer water which had been charged from deep-flowing Saratoga Springs water pumped to the surface by greedy bottlers. The State put a stop to that by buying practically all the mineral springs, letting them idle until the water table rose high enough to spurt...
...camera whirred steadily. Dr. Weibel slashed open the womb, ran his hand under the child, lifted it out of its mother. The camera whirred, clicked, fluttered, stopped. Dr. Weibel looked at Dr. Preissecker. Dr. Preissecker fumbled with the camera. The film had broken. Dr. Preissecker tried to fix it, grew confused...