Word: tabooed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plane, identified by a large black star on the fuselage. Each plane, with a crew of two pilots, a radioman & mechanic, is equipped with a pneumatic lifeboat. Each man has a sort of light diving suit in which he can live for half an hour under water. Taboo as provisions are liquor and chicken. To Italian airmen fowl is a jinx...
...patent medicine advertising, Publisher Curtis would have none, and once in the old days, when there was no money to meet the month's payrolls, he is said to have returned a check for $18,000 to a would-be advertiser of medicines. Cigaret advertising also was taboo (Mr. Curtis smoked cigars) until 1930 when hard times had squeezed the fat old Post from its 272-page high, to below 100 pages...
Quiet, reserved Assistant Editor Draper acted as a sort of brake on his paper's news organization. He abhors sensationalism almost as much as he hated the 18th Amendment and the shabbier aspects of professional sport. Another Draper taboo was profusion of "features" in the news columns. But it was he who negotiated with Calvin Coolidge to write a daily editorial for the Herald Tribune's front page...
...radiocasting in England is done by the Government's British Broadcasting Corp. which permits no advertising programs, a rule dearly cherished by the British Press. Thrifty France has no such taboo. Many a British and U. S. advertiser broadcasts from trans-Channel stations to the British audience (5,000,000 licensed sets). Of all British newspapers only the sporting London Sunday Referee prints the trans-Channel programs. Lately the Referee committed what, to its contemporaries, was treason. It sponsored a series of broadcasts from Paris. Last week the Newspaper Proprietors Association cast out the Referee. The Referee threatened "sensational...
...effect, amends only those parts of the Volstead Act which today limit the alcoholic content of "beer, lager beer, ale, porter" to ½%. Whiskey, gin, rum, wine and the like are still left legally taboo. Untouched are the scale of penalties for Prohibition violations. As large and complex as ever are the restrictions on industrial alcohol. H. R. 13,312, with many a change in definition, does nothing more than set up a complete legal exception for 3.2% beer from the 18th Amendment. To raise revenue it taxes the new beer $5 per bbl.?the brewers' chosen figure?thus...