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At the turn of the century, hucksters sold worm syrup and other nostrums to cure everything from rheumatism to cirrhosis. Back in 1908, the government succeeded in banning a headache remedy containing a toxic acid and bearing the beguiling name of Cuforhedake-Brane-Fude. The Food and Drug Administration, which...
This led to a congressionally mandated cutoff of aid to Turkey effective last February, though other factors played a major role: 1) the Turkish use of American military weapons on Cyprus clearly violated U.S. laws banning their offensive employment and a specific agreement between Washington and Ankara against shipment of...
That philosophy may find the FTC attacking business methods in one regard, supporting them in another. Thus the commission advocates the banning of advertising that Engman deems deceptive because it unfairly attracts buyers. Nonetheless, Engman is vigorously for advertising, which he believes is necessary if consumers are to "make a...
"Liberty in the sense we're talking about is not really a hot commodity," he continued. "Our whole political history is full of delicious ironies where someone is making a speech about liberty while he's banning the kid from school."
Every year about 350,000 acres of farm land on the fringes of America's suburbs-an area roughly half the size of Rhode Island-are taken out of crops and put into buildings. Though the loss may seem insignificant in a nation with 470 million acres of cropland...