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...thought the quickest way to get it was to ask Arabian American Oil Co., which held the rich Saudi Arabian oil concession, to fork over an extra $6,000,000 a year. Aramco balked. But in far-off New York was a man who thought he could fix things...
...Fioretti, bartender at Manhattan's Stork Club, got a tip from a steady customer-a 1948 Cadillac. The customer was an out-of-town auto dealer, and Tom had always been able to fix him up with a hotel room whenever he came to town...
...heraldic windows, horses, racing-cars, motorcycles and miniature railroads. His children were so terrified of him that once when his little daughter was prattling innocently about "the fertility of rabbits" she noticed one of her father's blue eyes appear around the corner of his morning Times and fix her with a look so deadly that she nearly fell out of her chair. The War Office regarded Doyle with much the same horror when, as early as 1900, he bombarded them with demands for reforms that seemed absurd to British Blimps: rifles (instead of sabers and lances) for British...
...said it was not concerned with pricing methods, but only with possible conspiracies to fix prices. Individual businessmen, it said, are free to compute their prices by using basing points, absorbing freight charges, or any other way they please, provided they do not use the system to conspire to fix prices illegally...
...submarine U-47, commanded by Lieut. Gunther Prien, surfaced off the Orkneys. Prien noted in the log: "The English are kind enough to switch on all the coastal lights, so I can obtain the most exact fix . . ." At dawn the next morning the submarine lay submerged at a depth of 270 feet outside Scapa Flow. At 7:15 that night it surfaced and the crew ate a warm supper...