Word: bans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...globetrotting engineer who has built electric and street car systems all over Europe and South America. At the end of Spain's civil war, during which all currency exchange was blocked, March began grabbing for Barcelona Traction. He got his great & good friend Francisco Franco to continue the ban on the export of the company profits to its Canadian headquarters. Without the profits, Heineman could not pay the interest on Barcelona's bonds, which are all held outside Spain, and they accordingly tumbled in price. March snapped them...
Last week, in the wake of 1951's scandal-plagued football season, a few belated spasms of conscience were rippling over the nation. Among the more notable convulsions: ¶ The American Council on Education's special committee on athletic policy (ten college presidents) proposed a ban on all postseason bowl games, a rule barring freshmen from varsity teams, elimination of athletic scholarships. ¶The Pacific Coast Conference formally adopted an "honor system" for policing its own backyard against the evils of subsidization. The men put on their honor: the college presidents. ¶ The Eastern College Athletic Conference (representing...
Restrictions on the use of rubber will be "largely eliminated" after Jan. 1, the National Production Authority announced last week. This will be the first lifting of controls on a major raw material since the start of the Korean war. NPA will continue its ban on white sidewall tires (to save natural rubber and titanium-dioxide pigments), and inventories of synthetic will be policed to prevent hoarding. But U.S. manufacturers will get all the synthetic rubber they need, and once again will be allowed to import natural liquid rubber...
...ban on piffle was too much; there was getting to be a dearth of debate-worthy epithets. Last week a movement began to amend the old rule, so that men can once more be men, and debate become something not to be piffled with...
...distributors of books like that don't follow our instructions," one officer said, "we'll take them to court, but no one has given us any trouble." He added that the police have found no new objectionable titles since the ban on the O'Hara noval...