The Obscene Publications Act ( OPA ) 1964 is a short piece of English legislation providing minor additional provisions in addition to the Obscene Publications Act 1959, which is the primary statute in this area.

The Office of Price Administration ( OPA ) was established within the Office for Emergency Management of the United States government by Executive Order 8875 on August 28, 1941.

The OPA was abolished effective May 29, 1947, by the General Liquidation Order issued March 14, 1947, by the OPA Administrator.

Opposition from conservatives in Congress and the business community against the OPA undercut Galbraith and he was forced out in May 1943, accused of " communistic tendencies ".

To get a classification and rationing stamps, one had to appear before a local War Price and Rationing Board which reported to the OPA ( which was jokingly said to stand for " Only a Puny A-card ").

The OPA was tested in the high-profile obscenity trial brought against Penguin Books for publishing Lady Chatterley's Lover ( by D. H. Lawrence ) in 1960.

Exxon claimed the OPA was effectively a bill of attainder, a regulation that was unfairly directed at Exxon alone.

Perlo moved to the Office of Price Administration ( OPA ) in November 1940, where he was head of the economic statistics division.

Victor Perlo signed Kramer's job performance rating at the Office of Price Administration ( OPA ) during the war and was listed as a job reference.

Margaret ( Peggy ) Greenfield, a communist and economic writer and assistant chief of the Progress Reporting Branch, Division of Research, of the OPA was a frequent contact of Jenny Miller.

His practice was interrupted in August 1941, when he joined the Machinery Branch of the newly created Office of Price Administration ( OPA ) as a legal advisor.

He was not at the OPA for long, for in 1942 he joined the Military Intelligence Service.

Irish law diverged from English law in 1929, replacing the OPA 1857 with a new Irish act ; see Irish statutes relating to censorship.

Tires were the first item to be rationed by the OPA, which ordered the temporary end of sales on 11 December 1941 while it created 7, 500 unpaid, volunteer three-person tire ration boards around the country.

To prove that the PQ is perpendicular to AB, use the SSS congruence theorem for ' and QPB ' to conclude that angles OPA ' and OPB ' are equal.

Then use the SAS congruence theorem for triangles OPA ' and OPB ' to conclude that angles POA and POB are equal.

Gambino also made a sizable profit during World War II by bribing Office of Price Administration ( OPA ) officials for ration stamps, which he then sold on the black market.

It will last for all eternity as a classic in writing and in acting .."-Ange Kenos, OPA Magazine, Australia

The compartments were filled with two liquid precursor chemicals for sarin ( GB2 ): methylphosphonyl difluoride ( denominated DF ) and a mixture of isopropyl alcohol and isopropyl amine ( denominated OPA ) is in a second canister.

OPA is an infectious disease of sheep and recently has been used as an animal model for human lung cancer.

* " OPA " ( song ), a song by Giorgos Alkaios & Friends competing in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 for Greece

Typically used in a 0. 55 % solution, OPA shows better myco-bactericidal activity than glutaraldehyde.

Oropharyngeal airway — Oropharyngeal airways ( OPA ) are plastic curved devices used to hold tissue ( such as the tongue ) away from the airway to keep it open.

An OPA should only be used in a deeply unresponsive patient who is unable to maintain his or her airway.

Patients tolerate NPAs more easily than OPAs, so NPAs can be used when the use of an OPA is difficult, such as when the patient's jaw is clenched or the patient is semiconscious and cannot tolerate an OPA.

* OPA, a mixture used in chemical weapons such as M687

A survey by the Observatory of Abnormal Practices ( OPA ) of the West African Economic and Monetary Union ( WAEMU ) found the Malian section of this road to have the highest number of police roadblocks with the highest average amount paid in bribes per trip in West Africa.

In the USA, offshore powerboat racing is split between OPA Racing, APBA / UIM races and the OSS races.

The functions of the OPA were originally to control money ( price controls ) and rents after the outbreak of World War II.

The OPA had the power to place ceilings on all prices except agricultural commodities, and to ration scarce supplies of other items, including tires, automobiles, shoes, nylon, sugar, gasoline, fuel oil, coffee, meats and processed foods.

Most functions of the OPA were transferred to the to newly established Office of Temporary Controls ( OTC ) by Executive Order 9809, December 12, 1946.

* All other OPA functions by the Division of Liquidation, Department of Commerce, effective June 1, 1947.

The OPA is featured, in fictionalized form as the Bureau of Price Regulation, in Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe mystery novel The Silent Speaker.

In 1942, Roosevelt issued a General Maximum Price Regulation, followed a year later by a " Hold the Line Order " which froze prices and gave the OPA power to keep prices in check.

The OPA itself – through its Consumer Division – mobilized the public on behalf of these guidelines, reducing the likelihood of " cheating " by those who would seek higher wages or prices.

Each received a monthly allotment of tires based on the number of local vehicle registrations, and allocated them to applicants based on OPA rules.

* OPA co. ltd.

Ortho-phthalaldehyde ( OPA ) is a chemical sterilizing agent that received Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) clearance in late 1999.

OPA has superior stability, is less volatile, and does not irritate skin or eyes, and it acts more quickly than glutaraldehyde.

For example, two cases of anaphylaxis following cystoscopy with endoscopes sterilized with OPA were reported by Cooper, et al., ( J Endourol.

The other Rutherford films ( all directed by George Pollock ) were Murder at the Gallop ( 1963 ), based on the 1953 Hercule Poirot novel After the Funeral ( In this film, she is identified as Miss JTV Marple, though there was no indication as to what the extra initials might stand for ); Murder Most Foul ( 1964 ), based on the 1952 Poirot novel Mrs McGinty's Dead ; and Murder Ahoy!

Their only child, Alexei was born in 1964.

... Conservation work on the building was undertaken in 1935 and again in 1963 and 1964, and today it stands 28 metres high and fully restored.

By 1964, membership had risen to 80, 000, and the ACLU was directly involved in a major expansion of civil liberties.

FC Zaanstreek was formed in 1964, continuing the professional adventure of the Kooger Football Club ( KFC ).

Their lowest point came during the 1964 – 65 season when manager Juan Carlos Lorenzo announced that the club could not pay its players and was unlikely to be able to afford to travel to Vicenza to fulfil its next fixture.

Later, the station at Perano Head on the east coast of the island was used to hunt humpback whales from 1911 to 1964 ( see Whaling in New Zealand ).

The title of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom was vested in the Sovereign from 1964 to 2011.

In 1964, the Admiralty was subsumed into the Ministry of Defence along with the War Office and the Air Ministry.

He received tenure at Berkeley in 1962 and was given his first sabbatical in 1964.

The Air Force was founded in 1964 as the Escadrille de la République de Haute-Volta ( EHV ) or the Republic of Upper Volta Air Squadron, a subordinate unit of the Army.

In early 1964, Benny and Christina joined a group with the odd name " Elverkets Spelmanslag " (" The Electricity Board Folk Music Group "), who by no means was a folk music ensemble: the name was a punning reference to their electric instruments.

In March 1964, " Elverket Spelmanslag " was up against another band in a talent contest, The Hep Stars.

The original Dartmouth BASIC was designed in 1964 by John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, USA to provide computer access to non-science students.

The original BASIC language was designed in 1964 by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz and implemented by a team of Dartmouth students under their direction.

In 1964, when Watterson was six years old, the family moved to Chagrin Falls, Ohio, where his mother, Kathryn Watterson, became a city council member.

While the scientific community was once divided between supporters of the Big Bang and those of alternative cosmological models, most scientists became convinced that some version of the Big Bang scenario best fit observations after the discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation in 1964, and especially when its spectrum ( i. e., the amount of radiation measured at each wavelength ) was found to match that of thermal radiation from a black body.

Additionally, Brooks Robinson was named Most Valuable Player in 1964, just two years before the 1966 – 1983 golden era began.

* In 1964 Burroughs had also completed the D830 which was another variation of the D825 designed specifically for real-time applications, such as airline reservations.

Many changes followed: the first full-time in house designer and publications officer were appointed in 1964, A Friends organization was set up in 1968, an Education Service established in 1970 and publishing house in 1973.

Mumy was reportedly the first choice to portray the role of Eddie Munster in the 1964 situation comedy The Munsters, but his parents objected because of the extensive make-up, and the role instead went to Butch Patrick.

In 1964 IBM introduced its System / 360 computer architecture which was used in a series of computers that could run the same programs with different speed and performance.

Since 1964, following clashes between the two communities, the Turkish Cypriot seats in the House remained vacant, while the Greek Cypriot Communal Chamber was abolished.