Word: fixings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...consider them, and such discussions simply becloud the issue of German war guilt. To borrow a twist from the world heavyweight champion, T Sgt. Joe Louis, a G.I. who isn't tongue-tied at critical moments: "There ain't nothing wrong with us that Mr. Hitler can fix...
...business. Most have reserves to pay for the actual costs of the changeover. But is there going to be enough prospective profit to speed production after the changeover? That was the issue raised last week by the National Industrial Conference Board. It took OPA to task for trying to fix prices of civilian products at 1942 levels, or only a shade over them. This price policy, said the Board, may do exactly what OPA does not want. It may hamstring big-scale production of the civilian goods which would relieve the present pressure on prices...
...Dusseldorf they talk of rebuilding the entire city in five years. First, they will fix up the Opera House and the theaters so that the dreadful monotony will be relieved. Then they will rebuild the least damaged apartments, finally the houses...
...sick, sad and weary friend was about to leave Moscow, after making arrangements for the next Big Three meeting, when President Truman got in touch with him. Secretary Stettinius had told the President that the San Francisco conference was deadlocked on interpretation of the one-power veto. Could Harry fix it with Stalin...
...frontier. The nation was beside itself with debate. New York's famed criminal lawyer James T. Brady sped to his friend's defense with a battery of assistants. Two hundred talesmen were examined before twelve unprejudiced jurymen could be found. "You are here to fix the price of the marriage bed!" roared Associate Defense Attorney John Graham, in a speech so packed with quotations from Othello, Judaic history and Roman law that it lasted two days and later appeared as a book. The jury gave little heed to the prosecution's plea that the case before...