Word: bans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...place of whining tires and peremptory blares. Black coachmen were unfailingly polite and the tranquil roads were a pleasure to walk. Five years ago a Governor General resigned in a huff because the Colonial Assembly would not let him have a car for personal use. Exceptions to the rigid ban: fire engines, ambulances, garbage trucks...
When the Columbia Broadcasting System recently tried to ban its newscasters from expressing their own opinions on the air it only emphasized the whole great problem of the interpenetration of "news" and "opinion" (TIME...
...there was still no word of any ODT ban on civilian North-South travel on the regular passenger runs. Said Miami hotelman Andrew G. O'Rourke: "If the Government doesn't want to have the tourists here, why does it let them come South...
...personal security of slender, ascetic Adolfo Lanus, La Prensa's editorial writer, was in doubt. He was reported under arrest. No Argentine regime had yet dared to ban La Prensa, but this was a challenge direct...
...nonce, the six ruggedly individualistic canners had got together to fight the ban. They were led by one of the big gest of them, a squat, merry ex-fishmonger named Pete Sellen (creator of the famed "Pete's trout-ticklers"). Back in 1917, Pete Sellen decided that salmon eggs, which were thrown away by fishermen, had their use. After experimenting with more than 400 solutions, he evolved a secret process of dyeing and preserving them. His brother, who had netted $16,000 cutting the cheeks off waste halibut heads and selling them for 10? apiece, financed him. The industry...