Word: prohibition
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...diamond and rubbing the gloss off 60 new baseballs with specially aged New Jersey creek mud that costs $12.50 a can. He must know by heart all 550 regulations in the baseball rule book. He must not only keep high-strung athletes from beating one another up, but prohibit fraternizing between the teams. He must make split-second decisions with confident finality, and he must be, or at least appear, totally immune to criticism. Says Veteran Charlie Berry, 58, of the American League: "You go into this business knowing that they'll never build a monument...
Double-do will especially be brought to bear on getting through Congress a bill to prohibit drinking on airplanes. "Before the year is over," says Mrs. Tooze, "I am confident that we will have won out. Bend your knees-not your elbows-if you would solve the world's problems...
...York Democrat Emanuel Celler in the House), the bill is a shotgun blast against everything that Kefauver dislikes in the pharmaceutical industry. It would require drug manufacturers to get licenses from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and give FDA power to inspect and close their plants. It would prohibit marketing of new drugs until they have been proved effective and make FDA the judge of effectiveness (it is now empowered to pass only on their safety, purity and toxicity). Under the bill, FDA could deny a license for a new drug if it only duplicated the effects...
...business expense the cost of advertising directed at Canadian readers in a foreign-owned periodical "wherever printed." The effect: to "approximately double" the cost of advertising in U.S.-produced magazines aimed at the Canadian market. The Commission urged that the customs laws should also be rewritten to prohibit importing any magazine unless it contained "no advertising which on its face indicates the availability of a product or service in Canada...
...court ruled against them in separate decisions, 6 to 3 and 5 to 4. Warren, again writing for the majority, held that the Sunday closing does not prohibit the free exercise of religion, although he did say that the law "operates so as to make the practice of [orthodox Jews'] religious beliefs more expensive." But the dissents were sharp. "The law," wrote Justice Potter Stewart, "compels an orthodox Jew to choose between his religious faith and his economic survival. That is a cruel choice. It is a choice which I think no state can constitutionally demand...