Word: fixings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...things that gave it the highest standards of living in the world, had gone to war. The luxuries were gone; some necessities were going; days lean as razorbacks were ahead. To share what was left the U.S. had two choices: it could have inflation, or it could fix prices, drain off public purchasing power and try to divide the available goods equally by ration...
Japanese flying ships are playing over the Mandalay Road in a fashion Kipling never imagined. Jap pilots fix towns under their sights like bugs beneath a microscope, stab them with hundreds of incendiary plummets, consume wide wooded areas and wipe out scores of villages. Flames nightly lick the demi-jungle under a full yellow moon, so that a ghastly orange ring encircles Burmese arsonists, looters, desolate lines of Indians' oxcarts beginning to go northward on their long hegira to India, and Chinese trucks, cyclists, American scout cars and artillery going southward to the front...
Four months ago Canada adopted the over-all ceiling plan-devised by Elder Statesman Bernard M. Baruch out of his World War I experience-after piecemeal stopgaps had failed. Now the U.S. was in the same fix. Price Boss Leon Henderson, who had tried to control prices by tackling them one at a time, was like a man with a rotted garden hose; as soon as he repaired one leak, a new one popped...
...just about right. Said he: "If we'd finished the job when we were there, you wouldn't be going now." Said the son: "You had your April the sixth; we've got our December the seventh. . . . This time we're going to fix it so this thing can't ever happen again...
...public would demand its half a pound per week, when retailers do not have it to sell. But the Senate committee will be far more daring than the Administration if it has the nerve to tackle the political interests which have gotten the U.S. into its present sugar fix...