Word: fixings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...carpenter's mates and a petty officer were trapped in a compartment five decks below. There was water all around them, a seaman said, and it was hopeless to try to get them out. The telephones were still working. Somebody called down: "Do you know what kinda fix you're in?" "Sure," they called back: "We know you can't get us out, but we got a helluva good acey-deucey game goin' down here right...
...bloc. Results: 1) The price control bill assured farmers a hefty chunk of money by prohibiting ceiling prices on farm products until the market price reached 110% of the 1909-14 purchasing power; 2) the bill gave Farmer Wickard veto power over any food price OPAdministrator Leon Henderson might fix...
...farm ceiling price-100% is enough. Moreover, he offered to approve an OPA ceiling on livestock prices provided farmers are protected against low prices. The hoped-for result would be to ease the squeeze between Henderson's ceiling on retail meats and Wickard's refusal to fix prices on the animals that packers...
...bought it outright and a mechanic drove him home. Wee Boy did the chauffering and things went smoothly until they got a flat tire. A mechanic came down from Memphis to fix the first one. Old Man Town chopped the second one off. After that they got along for a while on the naked...
...Star's story (ENEMY AIR-RAID MARKER STORY JUST A HOAX) caught the War Department flatfooted. It admitted that the story was indeed a fraud, launched an inquiry by Lieut. General Hugh A. Drum, commander of the First Army, to fix responsibility. While the press howled for ex-Hollywood Press Agent Lynn Farnol's scalp, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson announced a reorganization of Army press-agentry, which had been in the works before the air-marker story. The new system, intended to prevent just such blunders and to end rivalry among Army units for headlines, centers...