Word: embargoing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Liquor importers let out discouraged moans when President Roosevelt clapped an embargo on further "medicinal" importations of wines & spirits...
That is the first group which has been subtracting from Roosevelt's sleeping hours; the second is the farm bloc. A few days ago Governor Langer of Nebraska ordered an embargo on all wheat exports from the state, to be enforced, if necessary, by the militia; Milo Reno is organizing another general farmer's strike; there has been increasing sentiment built up for inflation. These were not casual outbursts, but evidence of the farmer's feeling that he has been excluded from the Recovery program, that his situation has become and is becoming worse through the growing disparity between agricultural...
...good and sold so freely prices slumped, threatened to break through the low levels established in last July's reaction. So abruptly did prices fall, particularly wheat prices which broke the limit of fluctuation (5? a bushel), that Governor William Langer of North Dakota declared an unprecedented embargo upon all shipments of North Dakota hard wheat, tying up some 50,000,000 bushels. Some of the hedgers feared that their joy might be the cause of the very disaster they dreaded. They well knew that Mr. Roosevelt, committed to raising prices and redistributing wealth, rides two horses. Should prices...
Prisoned in Germany by the Reichs-bank's embargo on exports of gold and foreign exchange are millions of marks owed to the Fatherland's foreign creditors, notably to such U. S. banks as Manhattan's Chase National. The only way the U. S. banks can move these "blocked marks" is to sell them at a discount in dollars (usually 15%) to tourists or merchants who need marks to spend in Germany, Last spring the North German Lloyd and Hamburg-American ("Hapag") Lines began to accept blocked marks in payment for passage. Passengers who paid in blocked...
...polled twelve times their strength in 1931. Observers admitted that the Tyrol was probably 75% pro-Nazi. Since then has come Chancellor Dollfuss' personal success at the London Economic Conference, the patriotism campaign, the winning of the right to increase Austria's army, Germany's virtual embargo on tourists to Austria, her unbelievably stupid border skirmishing in which she alienated thousands by killing several Austrian frontier guards, and the active fortification of the Austrian frontier (TIME, Sept. 18). Last week tight-lipped Major Emil Fey, Minister of Public Safety, was able to crow to correspondents...