Word: edicts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suggested the shutdown, and when Ickes accepted it. at once closed their own stations, asked their dealers to do likewise. In cities, most stations complied, figured it would solve labor shortage, cut expenses. Rural dealers, weary of 18-hour days at the pumps, were glad to hear of the edict, for the most part obeyed it. On New York's crowded parkways, State police gave emergency aid to stalled motorists: a gallon to light cars, two to heavier ones. Trucks and taxicabs were supplied, as provided in the plan...
...Hollywood set out to put "Tobacco Road" on celluloid. Gone entirely is the sociological message about hillbilly living conditions which has sent many metropolitan and rural audiences home with rotating intestines and a sincere wish that no one had even brought up the matter. Gone also, under Will Hays edict, is the spice which helped the play to an eight-year run on Broadway. What appears on the screen, shrouding fine performances by Charlie Grapewin and Gene Tierney as Jeeter and Ellie May, is a comical but altogether slapstick movie in the best Mack Sennet tradition...
...board, like the Commission, has as yet no administrative powers. But its creation was significant nevertheless. A priorities system is a war government's No. 2 weapon (No. 1: commandeering) for the enforcement of industrial edicts. The forging of the weapon reminded many businessmen of the edicts that may follow. And the edict they fear most is price controls...
...emotional stresses, once aroused in this fashion, tend to create a social compulsion not unlike state edict in its effect, while a brief look-see at the "God Bless America" excesses should convince anyone of the impossibility of maintaining this type of emotional patriotism within non-ridiculous bounds. (At one show currently on Broadway a magician pulls 20 Starred-and-Striped chorus girls out of a hat; they're honeys, but would Professor Elliott approve...
...France, newspapers were in a graver plight than in England. A Government edict forced them to reduce consumption of paper by one-half. This order limits them to two pages (a single sheet) five days a week, four pages twice a week...