Word: bans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington the old argument of guns v. butter collapsed like a ten-year-old inner tube. The tire ban proved how swiftly the Government could and would take away from Peter civilian to give to armed forces Paul...
Through the night Galbraith and his staff worked to make the order effective: they notified 200,000 tire retailers, sent telegrams to every governor and to mayors demanding police enforcement. By next morning the ban was airtight and puncture-proof-to remain until a rationing system which will insure enough rubber for the Army and Navy can be worked...
...appointive Senate, making subacid wisecracks about Mackenzie King's conduct of the war. He wants overall conscription, abolition of the excess-profits tax. He scoffs at the Prime Minister's "twilight twittering" about joint Canada-U.S. defense planning, grows rabid because Canada does not ban all U.S. periodicals with an isolationist slant. To Arthur Meighen, above all, Cana da is a unit of the British Commonwealth of Nations...
...Evidence of "unlimited cooperation" with U.S. foreign policy, to wit: repeal of the Arias-imposed ban on arming merchant ships (there are approximately 125 U.S.-owned ships under Panama registry); promise of "quick and favorable" action on any U.S. requests for air-and naval-base sites...
WASHINGTON--The office of Production Management tonight placed a ban, effective immediately, on manufacture of cellophane and other transparent materials used for wrapping many non-defense items including cosmetics, razor blades and soaps...