Word: fixedly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Exporters, Inc. was formed in 1926 to fix the price of copper in Europe, and for a long time U. S. producers seemed to have a gentleman's agreement on price. In copper as in other U. S. industries, however, anti-trust laws prohibit definite price agreements. Copper producers now are attempting to curtail production, but the price was back last week to 10? after its recent jump from 9? to 12? (TIME, Nov. 24). The world copper situation is complicated by potential African production which may soon overbalance U. S. curtailment. Tin. Attempts to curb tin production have...
...their pictures." Subjects were of every variety except the sexy: clipper ships, famed fires, wood-burning locomotives, horse-racing, prizefights, pioneers, Prohibition propaganda, baseball, domestic scenes, deathbeds of the Presidents, etc., etc. Now collectors' items, one Currier & Ives print (The Life of a Hunter-A Tight Fix) has brought $3,000. Though many of the prints were colored, they came off the presses plain, went to a great centre table where women workers added blues, reds, greens with lavish brushes. The 32 reproductions in this book give a good cross-section of the more than 4,000 subjects. Says...
...rightful place in Social Science offers, perhaps, the soundest application yet conceived of the invention. As he says, actual sight and sound of legislative' bodies in action would add tremendous vitality to the sometimes deadened lectures concerning those parliaments. Professor Friedrich's proposal, if carried out, should undoubtedly fix the word "film" as the permanent derivation from the original, "moving picture...
...political world who resent the notion that things will ever get better and who wish to enjoy our temporary misery. To recount to these persons the progress . . . in amelioration . . . to mention that we are suffering far less than other countries, only inspires the unkind retort that we should fix our gaze solely upon the unhappy features of the decline...
...Liege, Belgium, there gathered last week the steel lords of Europe, members of the International Steel Entente. Potent in theory is this cartel which was formed in 1926 to regulate production, later began to fix prices. But in fact it has become feebler and feebler through dissension among its members, bitter competition from Great Britain and Poland (non-members). Last week's meeting indicated definitely that the cartel's recent threat of competition against the U. S. is ended, indicated most definitely that the cartel was groaning in its death struggle...