Word: embargo
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...Government's gold standard policy, a determined attack on Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill's financial policy was launched by Laborite Lees-Smith, an economist. The attack followed the usual technical theme of stating that the Chancellor was conserving the gold standard by an embargo on foreign and colonial loans, which, of course, means that Britain cannot, under existent conditions, stimulate trade without granting credits in the shape of loans. This accusation of a false policy was interesting for the clear-cut reply which it evoked from the Chancellor...
...Poland wished to have an embargo placed on the sale of bacteria for war purposes. Referred to committee...
...Recently, Armour & Co. refused to buy from "traders" because they gorged the hogs* with food and water to increase their weight. Although this embargo was repealed at the insistence of the Department of Agriculture, it illustrates the power of the big fellows...
This is the economic background of the vested words recently uttered by various and sundry Americans on the paper situation. Canada, on the plea of forest conservation, is considering an embargo on pulpwood exports. This threatens the U. S. paper industry, the occurrence of high prices and severe hardships on U. S. publishers of almost all types. The National Publishers Association has prodded Senator Borah, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Mr. Borah remains in a quandary as to the proper steps to take...
...school age and this in spite of a score of new buildings. Little excuse for Mayor Hylan and his School Board was found by critics in the fact that Manhattan has a shifting population. Five years ago, the excuse, legitimate enough, was that the Government's wartime embargo on schoolhouse construction had just been lifted...