Word: bans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Baltimore, hypermammiferous Cinemactress Jane Russell in The Outlaw moved Judge E. Paul Mason to comment. Her breasts, hummed the judge, as he upheld the state's ban on the movie, "hung over the picture like a summer thunderstorm spread out over a landscape. They were everywhere. They were there when she first came into the picture. They were there when she went...
...fell another 7% in July, said the Department of Commerce, and are now down 19% from their May peak. The Department of Commerce expected exports to drop further as the world ran out of U.S. dollars. Latest dollar conservation move: Australia, following the British and French lead, imposed a ban on some 32 products ranging from washing machines to tires...
...Communist-dominated United Electrical Workers got a union-shop agreement from the Radio Corporation of America's RCA Victor Division. In Cleveland, the big, strong International Typographical Union's convention adopted a policy of not signing any future contracts, thus skirting the Act's closed-shop ban (see PRESS). Across the country many minor strikes and disputes were settled close to the deadline; in some cases, clocks were stopped at 11:59 P-m., while negotiations went on. In New York City a longshoremen's contract got signed in time, but three locals refused to abide...
...unfavorable, another Johnson worker is planted in the staff to make daily reports to Johnson. Such tactics help operators and managers to keep service at a uniform, better-than-average level; in the past they have helped most backers to get their investment back within five years. The wartime ban on pleasure driving cut heavily into their business. But this year, the chain expects to gross nearly $32 million, about 200% more than prewar...
...certain people who serve us faithfully and well-our chauffeurs. [They are] cooped up in a room without air, without airconditioning, without water and without reading matter. Now they are not even allowed to have a five-cent game of gin rummy in their spare time [because of a ban against gambling...