Word: bans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...smoldering jungle, Godfrey's party was also using a lot of Ban, a new underarm deodorant (and Godfrey sponsor) : "We're the first white people who've ever been seen in this part of the country, and these natives and animals are really getting a load of how nice white people smell." Godfrey was also introducing the natives to such civilized amenities as Blue Bonnet Margarine (sponsor): "We are crazy about it here; we're making blueberry pancakes and frying the liver from the wart hog with it. Everything tastes better with bloop blurp margarine...
...Hayes: "The natives get restless in the basement"). The great white hunter was undaunted. "I'm going off to shoot lions tomorrow," he signed off. "I'll call you next week. Goodbye and God bless you and give my love to everyone." Adjusting his bush-jacketful of Ban and oleomargarine, he beat back into the wilds...
Another source of complaint is English 10, a course originally designed to meet the ban on individual tutorial for sophomores. The Department had hoped that by giving credit and grades for group tutorial, students would be induced to prepare for meetings. Experience has indicated, however, that even a course would not induce most undergraduates to do their reading before class...
BILLBOARD BAN along new 41,000-mile U.S. interstate highway network will be asked by Eisenhower Administration. Plan is to withdraw some of federal road-building subsidy from states that refuse to pass laws requiring a 750-ft. sign-free area on both sides of the road. But plan will get fight from unions, sign companies, motels and farmers who rent land for billboards...
FUTURES TRADING in onions will be banned if Agriculture Department investigation finds that illegal manipulations caused recent price gyrations. Probers are suspicious because March futures, which will be traded until March 22, plummeted to 85? this month from $2.05 on Feb. 1. National Onion Association wants the ban, and bills calling for it go before House hearings next month...