Word: contrabanding
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...came the Vladimir Mayakovsky, also under British escort. She had 4,000 tons of U. S. copper and a lot of molybdenite aboard, cleared from Manzanillo on Mexico's west coast and San Pedro, Calif. She, too, was bound for Vladivostok. Her cargo, too, was suspect as contraband for Germany...
...Norwegians fumed last week when the motorship Cometa, bound from Bergen to neutral Argentina, was reported torpedoed by a U-boat right in Kirkwall, Britain's contraband control port in the Orkney Islands. The Admiralty quickly denied responsibility, said the sinking occurred "hundreds of miles" from Kirkwall in the North...
...organization of its economic front Germany so far has a big advantage. She was on a war basis two years ago, partially rationed, regimented, ruled literally from soup to nuts by Four-Year Planner Göring. The Allies' organization has rolled along, too-shadow factories, contraband control, women's industrial mobilization-but not without the grinding of many a gear. With 1,200,000 men in the army, with armament factories booming, Britain still has unemployment. Thus the major question of War II at the half-year mark remained not so much which economy could take...
...blockades of Germany need be feared: the distance and cost of such routes would be too great for bulky shipments. Nevertheless, he said, "The possibilities of checking such shipments are being considered." He let members think about, but by no means promised, a British blockade of Vladivostok, contraband inspection ports at Singapore and Hong Kong...
...Neutral ships carrying contraband to Germany would be sunk without warning...