Word: bans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stop the buying spree which has been eating up the Dominion's reserves of U.S. dollars, the import of hundreds of items was abruptly cut off. Outstanding examples: radios, refrigerators, typewriters, washing machines, furniture, automobiles. (In the case of autos, the ban is temporary.) For countless other items, import quotas are established. Among them: textiles (cut to one-third of the last twelve months' imports), oranges, lemons, grapefruit, clocks, watches, toys, sporting goods...
Luckman had already had an offer which applied more directly. It came from the nation's poultry-growers, still battling against poultryless Thursdays. In return for repeal of the ban, they promised that they would cut their poultry flocks enough to save an estimated 56 million bushels of grain...
Husband Added & Subtracted. In 1921 she joined the Communist Party. By 1924, when the Government ban on Communism forced her to go underground, she was a member of the Central Committee of the Rumanian Communists. On one of her underground visits to Switzerland she met and married Marcel Pauker, a Rumanian Communist engineer and journalist. Together they spent the late 1920s in the U.S., working for the Soviet trading agency Amtorg...
Sixteen Negroes and Whites put their lives in jeopardy this summer to take a trip through the Southland testing the effectiveness of the Supreme Court's ban on Jim Crow interstate travel. Their story of arrests and consistent fear of the lynch mob will be told to the College tonight at 8 o'clock by Nathan Wright, a Negro member of the tour, in Reed Hall of the Episcopal Seminary on Brattle Street...
...austere life does not lead to contentment. The English, Scotch and Welsh expressed dissatisfaction not so much with the socialist doctrine of the Labor Party as with a host of little unpleasantries that have been digging them ever deeper lately. The cut in the food ration, housing inertia, a ban on travel, and end of pleasure driving aided the Conservatives in turning out a vote fifty-six percent greater than last year but composed mostly of those who only hurl their ballots when they perceive what they deem the source of their discontent...