Word: fixings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Representative Martin Dies, on a trail he has been snuffing up a long time, proposed legislation to outlaw both the Communist Party and the Bund, fix heavy penalties for membership, suggested the President create a council of home defense to coordinate the FBI, the Secret Service, Army and Navy Intelligence...
...Industries Board in Washington. Before them lay a schedule of lower prices which the Board had worked out. Judge Elbert H. Gary of U. S. Steel addressed Judge Robert S. Lovett of the Board. "May I ask," asked he, "by what authority the War Industries Board has undertaken to fix these prices...
Actually, the War Industries Board had no specific legislative authority to fix prices. The vagueness of its powers, in fact, broke the health of its first chairman (Cleveland Lathe Maker Frank Scott) and caused its second (Railroader Daniel Willard) to resign. Not until Woodrow Wilson put Bernard Mannes Baruch in charge and armed him with personal backing did the Board really function effectively. That was in March 1918-eleven months after the U. S. entered...
...Germany's air preponderance over the Allies, and the United States as well, according to Den Hartog and Bollay, is not the quality of the pilot training but the quantity. Unless America expands rapidly both pilot training and aircraft production, "in 15 years we shall be in the same fix England is now," they asserted...
...been dead three years when a Federal jury and judge at Madison, Wis. convicted twelve U. S. oil companies, two tycoons and three underlings of fixing (and raising) prices in the Midwest-what NRA had previously encouraged them to do.* For violating the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, each company was fined $5,000, each individual defendant $1,000. Upholding the convictions this week, the U. S. Supreme Court-which had just heard the Government argue its own right to fix coal prices (see p. 83)-knocked out any idea that under the law there is good price-fixing...