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...other railway workers, a creeping paralysis gripped the nation. Passenger service almost everywhere was erratic or nonexistent. A fourth of the nation's 800,000 loaded freight cars were stuck on sidings all over the country. Industrial workers were laid off by the thousands. The most severe embargo in history was clamped down by the post office: nothing moved by first class mail which weighed more than eight ounces. Planes, trucks and buses were jammed with mail, freight and passengers...
Last month, when the U.S. embargoed shipments destined for Red China, Hong Kong's bubble burst. The Chinese Communists angrily declared a counter-embargo. But it was still hard to convince Hong Kong's public, long lulled into security by the tinkle of cash registers, that a war was going on in Asia...
...silent yards from St. Louis to Washington, thousands of freight cars stood on the sidings, many of them loaded with high-priority defense materials. An avalanche of Christmas packages clogged the post offices and a partial embargo was slapped on mail. The Railway Express Agency suspended service in 15 states; steel and auto companies began banking their furnaces, shutting down production lines...
...diplomatic smoke and steam, there was no real doubt in Ottawa or elsewhere that Canada stood squarely with the U.S. if total war proved to be the fateful outcome. Almost as a token of this, when the U.S. ordered an embargo on trade with Communist China last week, the Dominion immediately followed suit...
...exporting 75,000 tons of British newsprint this year to Australia (whose newspapers run as high as 48 pages), it had choked off almost all Canadian newsprint imports to save $7,-500,000 in Canadian credits. Scandinavian suppliers, quick to take advantage of the shortage created by the Canadian embargo, had boosted prices to Britain in 10 months from ?30 to ?35 a ton. Higher prices alone, warned the Sunday Express' Editor John Gordon, would put "many newspapers in 'Queer Street,' " and probably force a number of marginal provincial papers out of business...