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...Government, the Department of Agriculture and the Mexican Government. But they saved their real whizbangs for a fellow dealer, Kansas City's Ferd Owen. When they had worked off their wrath, they got Texas' Representative Wingate Lucas to draft an odd bill for Congress. It would prohibit export of mules except by Government permit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Mule Mixup | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

...latest blow struck in the name of the sanctity of the American way of life, the House Veterans Affairs Committee recently approved a rider which will prohibit the use of any GI Bill educational funds to Communists, Communist sympathizers, or anyone whose allegiance is to a nation "subservient" to Russia. If this should become law, no longer might American colleges be burdened with government-financed veterans who are subversive in the eyes of Parnell Thomas and other defenders of the democratic tradition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: What's Next? | 7/3/1947 | See Source »

...United States," he continued, "is already shipping 25 million tons per year." Professor Mason wondered whether American industrial needs might prohibit any further additions to this figure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cut Off in Vacation Retreat, Mason Hears Late Word on Truman Committee Position | 6/24/1947 | See Source »

About Legislator P. Guy Crews's bill to prohibit airplanes from flying over Florida if they have flush toilets [TIME, May 26]. Why do you say "None...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 16, 1947 | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

...Tallahassee, paunchy, gag-loving Legislator P. Guy Crews introduced a bill to prohibit airplanes from flying over Florida-if they had flush toilets.* &3182;The American Automobile Association, perturbed by the regularity with which pedestrians were colliding with their member cars, hopefully set out to popularize tail lights for the man in the street. The lights, two-inch plastic reflectors, come in red, orange or yellow, can be worn on the wrist, on a handbag or pinned to clothing-preferably just above the rear bumper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, May 26, 1947 | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

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