Word: fixing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Federal Trade Commission. Attorney Harry A. Babcock of the Trade Commission appeared before the Senate Finance Committee, now taking testimony on a bill to extend NRA, to lay grave charges at the door of the fire hose industry. Rubber companies had conspired to fix the price of fire hose, said he, even before the Rubber Code was signed. "After the code was adopted," Attorney Babcock declared, "the conspiracy was perfected and consummated 100%." New York was not the only victim. When Milwaukee accepted a low bid on fire hoses, it was contended, the bidder suddenly found himself unable to deliver...
Captain Anthony Eden, Lord Privy Seal of His Majesty's Government, had gone over to Paris to fix the French and Italians, if he could. Italy's Vice Foreign Minister Fulvio Suvitch was sent up from Rome to eat luncheon with Capt. Eden at the ornate French Foreign Office. Afterward a formal pretense of Anglo-Franco-Italian solidarity was made, but as one of the Latin statesmen said: "We have decided to let Sir John pull chestnuts out of Herr Hitler's fire, if he can. Later we will see whether or not we like the chestnuts...
Wormy haddock see thou fix...
...with rumors: that Venizelos had been wounded by an airplane bomb; that he had fled to Egypt; that the Averoff had been sunk; that the rest of the fleet had gone over to the rebels; that the Averoff had shot down two loyal planes; that a man named Anthony Fix was financing the revolution; that the rebels had advanced halfway to Athens; that they had bombarded the Parthenon. The Government was not "crushing" the revolution but as time passed without a rebel victory the morale and the chances of the Venizelos cause slowly faded. At week...
Aluminum Co. of America has been damned as a monopoly, double-damned as a Mellon monopoly. It has been accused of attempting to buy up the world's supply of bauxite, of cornering the supply of scrap aluminum, of conspiring to fix the world price of aluminum. Latest and most vociferous of Aluminum's accusers is Baush Machine Tool Co., independent aluminum fabricator of Springfield, Mass. Baush lost a $9,000,000 damage suit against Aluminum in a New Haven court in 1933. Last year a U. S. Court of Appeals granted a new trial which was concluded...