Word: fixing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, American-Hawaiian and Luckenbach Steamship companies, largest and most potent in the conference, indignantly withdrew. They hoped that the U. S. Maritime Commission, having failed to persuade intercoastal lines to regulate their own rates, would end throat-cutting for all time by exerting its power to fix minimum tariffs, which dates back in 1933 but has never been exercised...
Boyish-looking Roy Shreck, who takes off from Spokane, Wash., each midnight and climbs to 16,500 feet to take temperature, pressure and humidity readings, was in a particular fix, the worst he had seen in his three years of flying for the U. S. Weather Bureau...
Said dogged Shreck. "I just kept going." Said his wife: "It's wonderful." Said an airport friend of the flying weatherman, as a sort of explanation for Pilot Shreck's escape rather than a comment on his fix: "He never drinks or smokes...
...first time in his high-speed career, squint-eyed "Wild Bill" Cummings, hell-for-leather winner of the 1934 Indianapolis automobile race and many another hard-fought meeting on the roaring road, got into a fix last week from which his sure hand and "heavy foot" could not extricate...
...neutral zones. Rigid control of the credit and finance activities of the country would be essential; also, in order 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. Even this does not take into account the dangers of mass psychology. Inescapable is the conclusion that America, by reenforcing positive resistance to the totalitarian states, is promoting in the only practical way possible her own peace and security...