Word: forli
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Cambridge Licensing Board has announced that it will not renew pinball machine licenses after Jan. 1. an internal revenue Bureau decision imposing a special tax on such machines was responsible for the decision. Mrs. Blanche Ryan, secretary to the Board, said yesterday.
The distributor said the Board's ruling was "prejudiced" and based on "capricious thinking"; he questioned whether the board, which has permitted operation of these machines for the past ten years, should be arbitrary merely because it has the right. The Licensing Board's decision is final and not subject...
Saying the Federal government had imposed a special tax on so-called gambling machines (those types employing multiple coin and free game devices which build up odds), the distributor asserted that his machines are purely for amusement.
KARACHI, Pakistan, Dec. 8--President Eisenhower tomorrow heads for India, keystone of his 11-nation tour. On the way he plans to spend five hours in Afghanistan, a country with a colder climate, both literally and figuratively, than he encountered here in the warm embrace of Pakistan's capital.
IVY BLUFF, N.C., Dec. 8--Twenty dangerous criminals--heavily armed and at least four of them killers--broke out of the tough Ivy Bluff prison for incorrigibles today.