Word: fixings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italian accents of his youth. "He is a no-good son of a bitch. I should pull the rope. This is too much of a trial. They should never give him a trial. They never trialed us. They killed people like flies. Send him to me. I'll fix...
Under the new plan, member nations must fix the par value of their currencies in terms of gold or U.S. dollars, within a time limit fixed by the Fund, and cannot later revise the value more than 10% upward or downward without the approval of the Fund. France, by devaluing the franc, has come close to a realistic value. In many another country official valuations are nearly meaningless. Poland, which has hopefully signed the Fund agreement, still keeps an official value of 19? on the zloty, but recently a dollar would bring as much as 600 zlotys in Stettin. Greece...
...Battle of the Bulge, on at the Battle of Germany. Hastily, WPBoss Julius A. Krug had unwrapped the Government's overall plan. In its broad outlines, it was a plan to reconvert cautiously, to pluck the web of controls from industry a strand at a time, allocate materials, fix production quotas for the period between VE and V-J days. What businessmen said about this privately was often unprintable. They did not want to be led from war to peace; they wanted to pick up the ball...
...This does not mean that the Government or its fact-finding board is going to endeavor to fix a rate of return for the employer. It does mean, however, that . . . the question of earnings is relevant...
...called because its lips and fingertips are constantly blue; its blood does not contain enough oxygen. A common cause is small or obstructed passages from the heart to the big pulmonary arteries that carry blood from heart to lungs. That is what Dr. Blalock thought he could fix...