Word: prohibition
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these gave out, blackened the sky by burning old auto tires. Preliminary estimates of the citrus-crop loss, on the low side, showed that the expected 142,500,000-box yield of oranges, grapefruit and tangerines has been cut back to 119,400,000 boxes. Federal and state laws prohibit selling as fresh any fruit that falls to the ground, but some growers hid damaged fruit under a layer of good fruit to smuggle it past inspectors and take advantage of premium prices farther north...
Cheatham and his friends canvassed U.S. and European schools to find a new job for Kubali. They may well be too late. At week's end the Turkish Parliament had before it a new law giving the government the right to prohibit Turkish professors from teaching in any foreign universities without the Education Minister's express permission...
Closed Cupboard. In Gulfport, Miss., the city council considered a proposal that would prohibit the landing of "any mysterious objects within the city limits...
...increased number of intoxicated students at last Saturday's Penn-Navy football game has led University of Pennsylvania officials to prohibit the use of alcoholic beverages at future home games...
...student body's attempt to reform the social code, however, was rather nebulous. The proposals barred organized house-parties between the hours of 3 and 9 in the morning but did not prohibit mixed company during these hours. Rather, they were supposedly designed to create an atmosphere which would encourage the male to go to sleep...