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...publishers have cooperated in efforts to eliminate false advertising, but they view with alarm the Government's "using the term 'false advertising' as a mask with which to cloak a very evident desire to restrict or prohibit all advertising or to subject it to Government control...
Because of the large turnout this year, the squad has had to restrict its best boats to the fastest men. To make the squad, a candidate must row a four mile course in thirty minutes. This very feat, itself, according to Dennison, has encouraged a great many men to follow the sport...
...regards the match as a warm-up session and will have no scruples about leaving proven men on the side-lines to nurse injuries or simply make way for ambitious novices. Larry Corbett is in the former category with a sprained back and Dave Ives and Doug Pirnie will restrict their activities to the dashes. Sophomore Bill Maygar, who reached 21 feet 9 inches broad jumping in prep school, will thereby be given his first whack at outside collegiate competition...
...peaceful intentions U. S. Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles coldly replied that the U. S. was interested in deeds, not words, and Congress voted an appropriation to fortify Samoa and Guam. At this point Ko Ishii bustled into his press conference and suggested that the U. S. restrict its activities to the Western Hemisphere. Then...
...automobile body makers (Murray, Briggs) had already contracted to make aircraft parts, that General Motors was producing parts for its Allison engine in a Cadillac shop in Detroit. By compulsion if necessary, by maximum coordination in any event, he would multiply such examples a hundredfold. Furthermore, he would restrict the industry's aircraft production to a few standardized types. These would be mostly trainers and single-engined fighters; to experienced aircraft makers would be left the job of producing more complex bombers...