Word: fixings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cartel. Britain's tall, lean-jawed Lord Swinton had steadfastly plumped for the all-powerful authority to fix plane rates, routes, and passenger and cargo quotas-in effect, he wanted to cartelize postwar air transport. Otherwise, Britain feared that the sky-filling transport fleet of the U.S. would monopolize global flying. Stubbornly, Adolph A. Berle Jr., nimble-witted chairman of the U.S. delegation, demanded the freest of competition, argued that cartelization would hamstring postwar progress in aviation...
...Announcer, to a woman streetcar operator: "How about when the men get back? Do you plan to continue on the job?" Woman: "No sirree. . . . It's back home for me to take care of the house and fix some real good dinners...
Second Objection. Step No. 1, say the bankers, is for each country to get its budget under control, stabilize its own price level, and roughly balance its external payments and receipts. The Bretton Woods effort to fix exchange rates, even flexibly, they say, is only a third step which must be preceded by political and economic stability, nation by nation...
...Dealers on Capitol Hill were shocked and angry. Had not the President read their memorandum warning him against compromise? The White House switchboard began to buzz with incoming calls. But the President did not answer. Muttered one top New Dealer: "Now we're in one hell of a fix. Roosevelt, by God, has only himself to blame." Finally word went to Texas' New Dealers: Never mind the Stevenson plan; fight for control of the Dallas convention...
...charge went back to sleep. The Russian radio continued to urge Bulgarian peasants to "rise against the ruling clique." The Kremlin observed that Bulgaria would have to earn her way out of her fix. The price: war against Germany...