Word: fixing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have it forced down their throats. It is well to remember in connection with the governmental attempt to invade the territory of private business, that Public Utilities Commissions have been set up in the public interest and may be made more effective. Further, consumers may compel the commission to fix "fair" rates (usually a 6 per cent return on invested capital) by obtaining a court writ of mandamus, and stockholders may receive an injunction from the court when the commission's rulings amount to confiscation of invested capital...
...recognized at Geneva that the first essential preliminary would be to fix a neutral zone between the opposing troops...
...group of vested interests are for the most part those businessmen who are the most inveterate opponents of labor. They believe that if left to themselves they could turn the suspension of the anti-trust laws to profitable account. They also want to write their own ticket-fix prices, suppress competition, even deal as they like with labor. "Give us the privileges for which we bargained," they insist, "or we cannot be expected to give the U. S. the benefits of prosperity...
...would have made enemies of the other. In addition he had a third group to satisfy, businessmen who believe that if a business writes its own ticket it will soon bankrupt the economic railroad on which it is traveling. What good, they ask, does it do a business to fix prices or restrict production if high prices ruin its market...
...champagne, plied King George V with variations of cream cheese (a favorite dish), invented peach Melba. Other Escoffier creations: Sauce Diable, quail Richelieu, filet of sole Waleska. He knew more than 5,000 recipes, wrote a monumental cookbook which he modestly prefaced: "It would be absurd to aspire to fix the destinies...