Word: prohibitively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...defined, SEC has never liked it, refuses to concede that floor traders' deals often tend to smooth out violent price swings. As far back as June 1936, SEC threatened complete suppression of floor trading, later relented. Last week the Commission announced that it was readying a rule to prohibit floor trading altogether...
Helen Sobel makes no money out of tournament bridge. A.C.B.L. matches prohibit betting and cash awards. Many an expert earns his keep by playing rubber bridge. Mrs. Sobel usually plays at Manhattan's Cavendish Club. She hates to teach bridge, and seldom does. She also hates to write about bridge, lets...
...recording machine which Lieuts. Farr and Parks brought with them turned out a remarkably clear job on its first try. In a theater where the scarcity of electric power, the weather, and the nature of the country virtually prohibit front-line broadcasting, the crew have labored mightily to put together their broadcasts. A pair of lightweight wire recorders, shipped to them last week, should help...
...Assemblymen, more intent on security than on freedom, voted down a guarantee of liberty of political expression. They did vote to prohibit press ownership to 1) industrialists; 2) administrative officials; 3) persons of large commercial or farm interests. Effect of this would be to: 1) abolish that part of the French press that has collaborated with Vichy (most French papers have); 2) revive the Vichy-suppressed papers and those which had ceased to publish rather than play the Nazi game...
...proposed War Ballot Commission. Others feared that the Administration had a natural advantage with soldier voters. Ohio's Robert Taft, proffering an amendment to forestall overseas Government political campaigning, complained: "OWI is engaged in propagandizing the entire world in behalf of the President . . . [and will] continue unless we prohibit that kind of propaganda...