Word: embargo
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...State Department seemed to be planning some positive action in regard to Argentina, perhaps the long-rumored trade embargo. But this might be a tricky weapon. Argentines loathe outside coercion even more than they loathe their blundering militarists...
...said Lanny in 1937, did the U.S. help Franco by clamping down an embargo on Spain? Explained the President...
Certain activities along the Rio Grande last week suggested that Texas wages sometimes loom larger to Mexicans than Texas racial discrimination (TIME, Feb. 7). Word got about that Mexicans were sneaking across the Rio Grande, violating their own Government's embargo and taking jobs on undermanned Texas farms...
...major press association. The editors' consensus is that they do remarkably well. A girl reporter at the Interior Department was first to dig out the "Big Inch" faulty-pipe story. The Associated Press's young Flora Lewis was 24 hours ahead on the State Department's embargo of oil shipments to Spain. The girls contend that the traditional greeting of officials at press conferences -"Good morning, gentlemen"-is no longer fit for so many feminine ears...
...Spanish embargo on exports of wolfram, the toughening agent for armor-piercing steel, which Spain has been liberally supplying to Germany...