Word: fixings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Treadway's nine dissenters (smugly ignoring the fact that most Republicans vote solidly with Democrats on money-grabbing-bills) went to town protesting against "the prodigality of the New Deal spenders" who got the Government into this fix., "These wastrels," said the report, "have engaged in the greatest peacetime orgy of" extravagance in history. . . . The defense: program did not precipitate the present crisis in Government financing, but merely-made it more acute...
...lost his well-kept temper when his plane hit a storm, a tray-bearing stewardess hit the floor, and a chicken leg came to rest on his trim grey head. >> John L Lewis' maid refused to sit in a Jim Crow seat, got arrested, said "Mr. Lewis will fix you for this." >> Representative Clare Hoffman (R., Mich.) asked that "applause" (to his speech) be stricken from the Congressional Record "because there was none." Speaker Sam Rayburn suggested making such omissions permanent and universal. >> Eleanor Roosevelt offered to refund her half of a $1,000 fee (shared by her agent...
...upward. More surprising was their discovery that "if barley plants are exposed to radio-nitrogen, a small quantity of labeled nitrogen compounds are formed in the tissues of the plants." This may well show, says Hamilton, that leguminous plants (clover, peas, etc.) are not unique in their power to fix atmospheric nitrogen...
...while small fry, caught short, bid up the price. He proposed a Government inventory of all coffee, and even asked the big fellows to release stocks and correct the maldistribution. The meeting was unwieldy, and broke up with little done. Henderson's next step would normally be to fix all coffee prices by fiat. That might be good business, but not as the State Department understands...
This week, Mrs. Groenewegen moved, stamp and stamper, into the new building. Ralston rose up, called a protest meeting, sent a petition to Postmaster General Walker, asking for a 90-day stay, promising to fix up the old premises. Mrs. Groenewegen, invited to the meeting, sent word she was "too busy...