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...survey showed that super-salesmanship, when people's resistance is lowest, sometimes inveigles the bereaved into spending three or four times the deceased's monthly income for a decent burial. Some undertakers, said the survey, fix fees on the basis of the amount of insurance the deceased carried. During a plush year the average cost of burying a body is $410. Said the Federal Council: "Competition in the funeral business is not in terms of price and quality, but competition for the possession of bodies...
...Madison, is quite proud of the way he fixed his boys up with dates for the dance. Even his side kick Tex Lifschutz (or some such similar spelling) is proud of "the Dog." Now if he'd just fix Dante up we'd be happy...
...Cartel. Britain's tall, lean-jawed Lord Swinton had steadfastly plumped for the all-powerful authority to fix plane rates, routes, and passenger and cargo quotas-in effect, he wanted to cartelize postwar air transport. Otherwise, Britain feared that the sky-filling transport fleet of the U.S. would monopolize global flying. Stubbornly, Adolph A. Berle Jr., nimble-witted chairman of the U.S. delegation, demanded the freest of competition, argued that cartelization would hamstring postwar progress in aviation...
...Announcer, to a woman streetcar operator: "How about when the men get back? Do you plan to continue on the job?" Woman: "No sirree. . . . It's back home for me to take care of the house and fix some real good dinners...
Second Objection. Step No. 1, say the bankers, is for each country to get its budget under control, stabilize its own price level, and roughly balance its external payments and receipts. The Bretton Woods effort to fix exchange rates, even flexibly, they say, is only a third step which must be preceded by political and economic stability, nation by nation...