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...There is one way we could fix that prop," says co-pilot Joe, who is on his first regular fight since graduating from pilot school...
...powerfully than ever in Rome's market. And just in time, too. Rome's mayor was preparing to investigate profiteering in the market, threatened her and all her kind with price control. Nannarella merely snorted. "Let him. We live by our wits here, and no mayor can fix them. My child isn't going to have the hard time that I had." As for the consumers who complained about her prices, "What do they expect?" said Nannarella. "Where are they at 4 o'clock in the morning? If you want to lie abed, you have...
...international control. Outright ownership and operation would remain with the nation involved--Egypt in the case of Suez, the United States in Panama, Germany in the Kiel Canal--but an independent body, similar to this country's Interstate Commerce Commission, would be chartered under the United Nations to fix maximum rates and minimum standards of operation. This body would act also as a board of arbitration for any complaints--with the General Assembly as the final appeal group...
...Massachusetts Collector Denis Delaney was convicted of bribery, served nine months. St. Louis Collector James Finnegan* had a nice way of obtaining legal retainers from firms doing business with the Government, later went to jail for 18 months. Former Assistant BIR Commissioner Daniel Bolich was convicted of conspiracy to fix a tax case. Ernest M. Schino, a deputy collector in California, was convicted (two years) of tax fraud conspiracy. So was Patrick Mooney, the BIR's chief field deputy in Nevada. In all, some 200 BIR employees were involved in misconduct charges ranging from Hatch Act violations to monumental...
...Fixative Fix...