Word: fixings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...National Foreign Trade Council, recognizing what many cartels have done to fix prices and control production to the detriment of consumers, would have the U.S. stand firm against cartels in home in dustry. But it would permit U.S. firms to make agreements with foreign cartels, require them to be filed with the Department of State. Unless the State Department found within three months that the agreement unreasonably restrained trade within the U.S., then the deal would be blessed by the Department...
...world's tight trade combinations, the British-controlled diamond cartel is the best textbook example of how to control production and fix prices. U.S. businessmen have long been aware that if this cartel could be splintered, diamonds might become cheap enough to: 1) weigh down their wives' fingers; 2) drastically cut the cost of diamond drills, grinding wheels and other industrial tools. Impressed by these facts, Attorney General Francis Biddle last week set out to break up the cartel...
...Richardson and his associates mobilized their forces to fix...
...survey showed that super-salesmanship, when people's resistance is lowest, sometimes inveigles the bereaved into spending three or four times the deceased's monthly income for a decent burial. Some undertakers, said the survey, fix fees on the basis of the amount of insurance the deceased carried. During a plush year the average cost of burying a body is $410. Said the Federal Council: "Competition in the funeral business is not in terms of price and quality, but competition for the possession of bodies...
...Madison, is quite proud of the way he fixed his boys up with dates for the dance. Even his side kick Tex Lifschutz (or some such similar spelling) is proud of "the Dog." Now if he'd just fix Dante up we'd be happy...