Word: embargoing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Munich, an embargo was placed upon the importation of parrots into Bavaria...
...Angeles, all pet stores and recently purchased birds were quarantined. In Chicago, one Ben Plonski tried to get rid of an annoying parrot by telling health officers that the bird was "a psittacosis menace to the community." In Manhattan, City Health Commissioner Shirley W. Wynne declared an embargo on parrot shipments from South America, advised parrot owners to wash their hands thoroughly after touching their birds...
...Lifting of Japan's embargo on gold...