Word: fixings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gist: fix the selling price of the plants on the basis of their actual postwar "use" value, rather than on their sky-high original cost...
General Motors jumped into the banking business in March 1933. Virtually every bank in Detroit had been closed for six weeks. All business was at a near standstill. Even rich G.M., which had had some $19,000,000 of its cash impounded, was in a fix. Finally, to the $12,500,000 which the Reconstruction Finance Corp. subscribed to start a new bank, G.M. added a like amount (to buy all the common stock at $25 a share). Together they helped break Detroit's financial paralysis...
...much as I want to, because, Baby, you're stuck." ("Uh-huh," she says, "I'm stuck.") In The King of the Desert, two wise cracking pansies torment a stolid football player in a Hollywood bar until he knocks one of them out ("We'll fix you in Holly wood, Mister...
...into May), and partly because of the San Francisco Conference (which will probably last into May), it is clear, said Mr. King, that a general election "could not be [held] before . . . June." But he still was not saying exactly when the election would be held. "It is impossible to fix a definite date now, because it is impossible to predict the course of the war." It might not be until July. Or even later. More than anything else, Mr. King wanted to avoid, and he believed the people wanted to avoid, a wartime election...
...week's end, Brazilians were still waiting for wary President Vargas to fix the day of elections, publish an electoral code and his new liberal constitution. Vargas had not announced his own candidacy. But chances were good that he would soon decree elections, try to win in a rush before the opposition could get started...