Word: fixings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Since one out of five Army selectees is turned down for bad teeth (he needs only six uppers and six lowers which meet), Lieut. Commander Charles Raymond Wells, chief dental officer of Selective Service, told dentists they would soon be called on to help fix up men for the Army. In a short while, he said, the Federal Government will earmark funds for paying the bills of men who cannot afford them...
...Government lawyers fared no better in the second week of the decision than in the first. Their claims that Alcoa was party (through Aluminium Ltd.) to an international cartel, had conspired to fix prices, divide markets, keep competitors from entering the field, and restrict imports were all rejected (although certain to be aired again before the Supreme Court). "Not only has the Government failed to establish the charge," said Judge Caffey, "but the evidence is convincing the other way." Because of uncertainties about materials available, automakers last week put a brand-new phrase in their ads: "Specifications subject to change...
...Eneas Lamberton was sworn in as the city's new Mayor. Mr. Lamberton, a Republican but a nice one (gardening in Germantown, cards at the crusted Union League Club), did what he could. He replaced worn-out motorized equipment, enlarged the police force, got WPA to promise to fix the lights. Last summer he was getting around to the water system when he suddenly died...
...observant, he would prefer to spend all out-of-lab days at his farm in Chocorua, New Hampshire, with his wife, six year old son, five year old daughter, and fishing pole, than at any amusement which the city can offer. There he can putter around in his garden, fix the stone wall, or experiment in transplanting some esoteric kind of flower. As an old friend remarked, "He certainly can make an old azalia bloom...
...Congress. This was just the kind of advice the House Banking & Currency Committee was busy ignoring this week. Black-haired young Albert Arnold Gore of Tennessee was the exception: he began drafting a Baruch-like bill which would freeze farm prices at parity, fix all other commodities-and wages-at their Oct. 1 levels. But Gore was taking the lonesome road...