Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Smoking or lighting matches outdoors during a blackout is forbidden...
...Married men up to 35, single men up to 45 were made subject to military call. Every other able-bodied person in Australia, including enemy aliens not interned, became subject to call for war work. Employes on war jobs were forbidden to quit or be absent from work without good reason...
Since the Army was forbidden by law from sending undercover agents abroad, before the U.S. was at war attaches had to operate strictly on their own. Nevertheless, during five years in Europe (1935-39, 1940-41), General Lee picked up so much information that War Department associates rate him the most knowledgeable Army expert in the U.S. on European matters...
Last week Attorney General Francis Biddle marked off 88 coastal areas from which all enemy aliens will be evacuated by Feb. 24. Forbidden territory so far includes San Francisco's waterfront, where 1,500 alien fishermen keep their boats; all lighthouses, radio and power stations, dams, airports, defense plants; 17 truck-farming districts where Japs for years have grown winter fruits and vegetables for U.S.tables...
...coniferous trees from which most paper is made. From the vats of U.S. mills every day are drained some 12,000,000 gallons of lignin waste. Papermen find it harder to get rid of than old razor blades. It is often poured into streams-a practice now forbidden in some States because the lignin absorbs free oxygen from the water, asphyxiates fish. Where stream pollution is forbidden, lignin wastes are now bothersomely and expensively dehydrated and burned-except at a few enterprising U.S. mills...