Word: fixings
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Unfortunately, the Empire touch has passed lightly over just the asset of No, No, Nanette which pleased U. S. audiences: the tuneful score of Vincent Youmans, containing I Want to Be Happy and Tea for Two. The residue is just a flimsy yarn about a coy and curvesome Miss Fix-it (Miss Neagle) who spends her time extricating an errant uncle (Roland Young) from the grasp of troublesome trollops...
...railroads insisted they could handle any traffic load the defense boom might produce. When Burlington's Ralph Budd joined the Defense Advisory Commission, he did not seem worried either. In July, when traffic had risen to over 700,000 carloadings a week. Commissioner Budd urged the roads to fix up their bad-order cars, keep them below 6%. The Administration wanted him to force orders for 100,000 new cars at once, 500,000 by 1942. Mr. Budd preferred not to interfere with rail managements...
...prepared for just such a situation, Henritze gave his fellow members something to think about: "Safeway is emphatically against any increase in this markup. A higher markup goes beyond the sound purposes of the law and represents an attempt to use the law as an instrument to fix prices. . . . The Department of Justice already has issued warnings against combinations under any guise whatever taking advantage of the war crisis to raise prices to consumers. . . . Safeway is forced to resign." With that he left the hall, ignoring shouts that he stay to answer questions...
After two years of talking about it, Congress last June appropriated $585,000 to fix the roof. While Congressmen snoozed, debated, passed bills and paid no further heed to the danger hanging heavy over their heads, Architect Lynn anxiously waited for a chance to move in and erect temporary steel props. That job will take five or six weeks. If Congress ever decided to stay away for six months, he would tear off the whole roof, build...
...care of the bodies of my children, and consider that the immortal part is of infinitely more importance. . . O that we could inspire the rising generation around us with a scnse of the importance and worth of time, and the certainty that every action of every day helps to fix a character for eternity." It is this inherited spirit of the noble dignity of man that characterizes the entire life of C.N.G...