I should have said "little stink."  The economists lost their jobs for writing
against it, if I recall correctly.


On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 04:12:24PM -0500, Carrol Cox wrote:
> Michael Perelman wrote:
> >
> > The law against coloring caused a big stink.
>
> No -- it led to continual but for a long time unsuccessful efforts to
> get it repealed. And it was _not_ a law _against_ coloring; it was a law
> _requiring_ the bleaching of a substance which was yellow as it came out
> of the manufacturing process.
>
> Carrol

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