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...have no force-out tax provision. Against Schenley stood Joseph E. Seagram & Sons. Seagram argued that Schenley held 60% to 70% of all the old whisky in the U.S., hence would reap the major benefit. Seagram backed a different proposal of the Distilled Spirits Institute: grant tax relief, but prohibit distillers from labeling their whiskies as over eight years old until all companies have built up big inventories of cobwebbed stocks...
...approach of final examinations and several unfortunate recent episodes lead me to warn students that they are individually responsible for a knowledge of Faculty regulations," Leighton stated. College rules prohibit possession of explosives or the playing of "boisterous music" after...
...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...