Word: bans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden got back from Russia last month he brought with him a sound-track of his Moscow reception, pointed out that a Russian band had played God Save The King. Instructions were thereupon issued to lift the ban on the Internationale...
...Notable exceptions to the rubber ban: hospital utensils, contraceptives...
Jane Wyman, self-acclaimed kissing champion of Hollywood and honorary top sergeant, pondered Britain's code-wary ban on Xs in love letters, dreamed up a substitute: lipstick impressions. "I wish every girl who writes to a soldier would send them," she confessed to the newspapers...
...citizens may soon have to get along without long-range, detailed weather reports; Washington plans to ban them. Army & Navy experts have decided that that kind of weather information could be too useful to enemy aircraft. Strictly local forecasts* will be permitted. Florida fruit and vegetable growers who worry all winter about killing frosts will continue to get advance information. But Weather Bureau officials predicted that there would be no more wide regional forecasts, detailed information about direction and force of winds, storm centers and storm paths, areas of high and low pressure...
Although all-out defense will ultimately force; production still further upward, the tapering off of non-defense industries may offset it for a while. Some of them are being cut off short. Last week OPM's tire ban ended for a time the bulk of the civilian sales of the rubber industry (200,000 employes, 200,000 tire outlets). The new auto quota cut foreshadowed no new passenger cars after Jan. 31. Washing machine output (7,000 employes) was cut to one-third of last year's; makers of juke boxes, pinball machines, coin scales, etc, (about...