Word: fixings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Berlin officials last week announced the latest of Adolf Hitler's grandiose industrial plans for the New World Order-the complete cartelization of the European automobile industry. It was said that on June 5 German, Italian and French automobile builders would meet in Paris to fix standard models and production quotas. U.S.automotive exporters, whose production is curtailed 20% for 1942 models in favor of defense, were free to draw their own conclusions...
...underwriting community wilted and reeled," reported the sympathetic New York Herald Tribune in telling how Federal Loan Administrator Jesse Jones last week offered to bid for public utility bond issues. "Investment bankers . . . saw the RFC as a potential competitor who could fix terms and rates, and put them entirely out of business...
...many successful men. His eyes, behind steel-rimmed glasses, glitter smilingly with every word he utters. Some people who take his courses groan that they can't understand a word he says. A little judicious listening, coupled with the immunity gained after a few of his lectures, should fix that. Short, boyishly cut gray hair, a rapid and brusque manner, make him seem a tall little man. A conversation with Sorokin requires an effort to keep up with his wit, and when he gets serious, an effort to grasp what he is talking about. For him, the best art, literature...
...head of it he placed burly Leon Henderson, most dynamic and executive of the New Deal coterie. Into Henderson's hands he placed powers which include authority to fix priorities on all civilian supplies, to withhold supplies from offending industries, to use priorities on transportation, to fix and publish maximum price schedules-and to advise the President to commandeer plants which fail to cooperate...
...prices, leaving them free only to fall. His reason for urging overall price regulation: attempts to fix individual prices...