Word: fixings
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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...
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...
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...
...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...
...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...