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Word: fixings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rate. This hobbling of free competition began with retail druggists, who feared that cut-rate chains would put them out of business. In 1931, they rammed the first effective fair-trade act through the California legislature; it gave manufacturers and retailers the power to fix the resale price of commodities bearing a trademark. Later, the National Association of Retail Druggists lobbied the same law through other state legislatures. Fearing a clash with federal antitrust laws, the druggists in 1937 drummed the Miller-Tydings Act through Congress. It enabled many others besides druggists to fix prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fair Trade? | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

Jaakko Mikkola's Barriers racked up fix more defeats for the season in Saturday morning's Heptagonal meet in New York, but at the same time the Crimson outran Navy to sneak in its initial...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harries Wind Up Fifth in New York | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

Trust-Busted. In a federal court in Manhattan, the Department of Justice won a skirmish in its antitrust battle (TIME, Oct. 4). Eight of the biggest U.S. tiremakers* and the Rubber Manufacturers' Association, all charged with conspiring to fix prices and discounts, were fined a total...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Facts & Figures, Nov. 1, 1948 | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...strongly denied student rumors that the roof is caving in. "Nothing is wrong with the roof that these repairs won't be able to fix...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Falling Blocks on Radcliffe Library Roof to Be Fixed | 10/28/1948 | See Source »

...until August 1 did the air lift come through. The group climbed to high camp to get it, and then split into two groups. Fix and Bell took their surveying tools up Remote Mountain, while the others started to scale Hardship, Privation, and Ribbon...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: Storms, Cold, Hunger Faced Students Charting Rockies | 10/27/1948 | See Source »

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