Word: prohibition
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...radioactive iodine. Tobacco is no longer banned in all cases-"there is little point in forbidding a tense patient to smoke a little, if that serves to relax him." Also, "if one or two drinks a day serve to relax an otherwise apprehensive person, it would be unwise to prohibit them." But the patient must not drink heavily because that-it is now known-adds to the burden on the heart instead of decreasing it. Angina patients are now also allowed to fly, in preference to a longer, more fatiguing surface journey, thanks to the development of pressurized cabins...
Vellucci had proposed that cars be permitted to park overnight on alternating sides of Cambridge streets 40 feet or wider. The present regulations prohibit overnight parking on all city streets...
...municipal bus lines to write restrictive specifications to exclude bids from other manufacturers. As a result, said the complaint, more than 20 G.M. competitors have withdrawn from bus-building since 1925, and no new company has come into the field since 1946. The Government asked the court to "perpetually" prohibit G.M.'s monopolistic practices, and to enjoin G.M. from supplying more than 50% of the bus requirements of four principal bus operators (Greyhound Corp., National City Lines, New York City Omnibus Corp., Public Service Coordinated Transport...
...real barriers to increases in US-Soviet trade far surpass licensing requirements. The "strategic" classification itself is so stringent as to prohibit exportation of anything Russia seeks to import. In addition to keeping out of the USSR anything helpful to Soviet military potential, export controls also ban commodities which could in any long-run, remote way be useful to Red industrial development. Naturally Russia has little yearning for baby bibs and dentures, so there are declared non-strategic. With supply and demand stubbornly entrenched back to back, US-USSR trade had consequently dwindled to practically nothing. An unencouraging US official...
...four Southern states last week proclaimed a pattern of opposition to the Supreme Court of the U.S. Governors Thomas Stanley of Virginia, James Plemon Coleman of Mississippi, Marvin Griffin of Georgia and George Bell Timmerman Jr. of South Carolina jointly declared that the Federal Government had no power to prohibit the segregation of races in the public schools. (North Carolina's Governor Luther Hodges attended as an "observer," did not sign the declaration because his state legislature was not in session.) The governors recommended to their state legislatures "that there be adopted a resolution of interposition, or protest...