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...giant's pains has been partially, temporarily, deadened. For Standard Oil Co. of Indiana finally agreed that for 90 days it will curtail its Venezuela production and imports by 23%. This compares to a 25% reduction by Royal Dutch-Shell. Although independent oilmen have wanted a total embargo or at least a tariff, this voluntary partial curtailment of imports was welcomed by them. Coming a week before the meeting of the Federal Oil Conservation Board, it will give that body something concrete to work upon, said Secretary Wilbur...
...Embargo. If the Duff speech was somewhat stuffy all Canada was excited and agog last week over an Order-in-Council announced by the Hon. Edmond B. Ryckman, Minister of National Revenue. The O-in-C, a most drastic embargo, shut out of Canada virtually all Russian produce, including Soviet coal, wood pulp, lumber of all kinds, asbestos, furs...
...years, has grown up with the oil industry in that state. In the Senate oil is his chief interest-the oil of independent producers as distinguished from the oil imported by the big refining companies. He battled for a $1-per-bbl. tariff and lost. He battled for an embargo on oil imports and lost. The close of the Senate session found him tall and stubborn, battling no less vainly for a resolution whereby a Senate committee would investigate the oil industry. Chief objector to this resolution was Pennsylvania's Senator Reed, good friend of Secretary of the Treasury...
...Speaker's dais. Eleven of them were independents from Wisconsin, Minnesota, New York, who sought liberalization of the House rules as the price of party support. The other seven bolted as a protest against the Longworth leadership which had refused to bring up at the last session oil embargo legislation demanded by independent producers against the big importing companies. Representative-elect Harold McGugin announced from Topeka that he would vote Democratic on House organization- a possibility which would produce a 217-217 tie to be broken by Farmer-Laborite Kvale. Three days later the death of Wisconsin...
...Passed a bill to broaden the Treasury's tariff embargo power against goods or raw materials produced by convict, forced or indentured labor; sent it to the Senate...