Word: bans
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...opinion they had gone too far. Said the Cornell Daily Sun: "Cornell's doctrine of 'freedom with responsibility' had clearly been abused . . . The administration will not and should not allow us to kill ourselves . . ." Last week the faculty committee made Acting President de Kiewiet's ban permanent...
Last week, without so much as a by-your-leave to the U.S. conferees, Britain announced a solution all its own. Beginning Jan. 1, it will ban imports of fuel oil to Britain from the dollar areas until all oil from sterling areas is used up. Imports of dollar gasoline will be cut by one-third. Britain hoped that it could thus save 5% to 10% of dollar expenditures on oil, because in the last few months the oil supplies of the sterling area have gradually changed from shortage to surplus...
While many a U.S. oilman realized that Britain had to conserve its dollars, some thought that the sudden ban was really an attempt to freeze U.S. oil out of the sterling area for good. Some Congressmen from the oil states were already up in arms: ECA, which must go before Congress this month for more money, feared that they might force a cut, particularly since ECA itself had helped cause the sterling oil surplus. It was also a blow to the U.S. idea of freer world trade. Said one ECA oilman: "Everything that happens in international trade happens first...