Word: embargos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More important to Britons than Italy's embargo on their Coronation last week was the continued strike of 25,000 London busmen demanding a 7½-hour day, slower schedules. The capital, without its 5,000 chugging, swaying, double-decker busses, which carry 5,000,000 passengers a day, looked strange, and only taxi-drivers, who did a roaring business, rejoiced in their absence. Two other labor clouds loomed ominously: first, many subway and streetcar workers were eager to stage a sympathetic walkout; second, miners all over the country threatened to strike a week after the Coronation, unless Harworth...
...trouble is anticipated in shipping the ambulance if enough money is obtained, spokesmen for the committee declared yesterday, since it would be for medical aid, and ambulances are not subject to the embargo provisions...
There is nothing very serious about this arbitrary little restriction and no one will go hungry as a result, but it tries a man's patience, and ruffles his equanimity. Mr. Hieman has denied any connection with the new fruit embargo, so the only conclusion that can be drawn is that some waitress or waitresses decided that she would take the matter into her own hands. But now that all fruit served must be cut and eaten on the premises, the waitresses have the added responsibility of seeing that no one slyly puts a grapefruit or two into his pocket...
...Agitated in the steel trade last week was an embargo on exports of scrap-iron and steel, which is now selling at about $23 per ton, more than 50% above the price a year ago and the highest quotation since 1923; and sending up the price of domestic steel production. In steelmaking, scrap is as important a source of raw material as iron ore. So heavy is the movement of scrap to U. S. seaports that many a railroad has had to refuse further shipments until their yards are cleared of present congestion...
...discretion which the President is allowed and the possible repercussions which might result from a vigorous application of the proposed laws. As soon as the President declares a state of war or civil strife to exist a number of very definite commercial and financial drawbridges are raised: an automatic embargo on exports of arms, ammunition and "implements of war"; curtailment of all loans to belligerents; prohibition of any Americans to travel on the vessels or aircraft of warring nations; and perhaps most important, the provision that all American claims to any materials whatsoever, intended for a belligerent country, must...