Word: fixings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have converted themselves to war. The whole automobile industry has gone to war. Detroit-and not only its Henry Fords but its Bud Goodmans and Frank Morisettes and Eddie Hunts and Roscoe Smiths-had gone to war. The whole U.S. nation was going to roll up its sleeves and fix Armageddon...
Returning to the attitude of students today, Rand stated that "the unification of this country has not yet been perfected." Many of the isolationist sentiments of young people, he remarked, must be attributed to the postwar historians, who were unable to fix the guilt for the last war and so spread the conviction that this was a purely imperialist struggle. "Things would have been different if we had joined the League," he concluded...
This week a court of inquiry under Rear Admiral Lamar R. Leahy, retired, sat down to try to fix the blame. Did the Lafayette's elaborate fire-detector system operate? What had happened to her fire-fighting equipment? Was a fire patrol on watch? Why allow men to operate acetylene torches so close to inflammable kapok...
...made necessary more by hoarders' fears of it than by a serious shortage in 1942 supplies. Nor does his 1942 quota (77 lb., counting industrial supplies) threaten the U.S. citizen's health, whatever it does to his sweet tooth. But industrial users are in a worse fix. Not only are they under quota, but their foresighted purchasing was in vain...
WASHINGTON--The Senate tonight completed Congressional action on a compromise price control bill which falls far short of legislation demanded by President Roosevelt but gives the government power to fix prices on almost everything purchased by the average American...