Word: embargos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elimination of "all abnormal trade barriers which have recently been imposed by way of license and embargo...
...hinted that it might call on the U.N. Security Council for sanctions against the Arabs, and lift the embargo on arms to Israel. "The Arabs," declaimed Syria's Faris el Khoury in reply, "are ready to be killed by your atomic bombs." Khoury and everyone else knew that it would not come to that. But the U.S. and Britain (if it continued to arm Arab states) might easily drift into fighting each other by Jewish and Arab proxies: Or, if Britain joined the U.S. in sanctions against the Arabs, the last chance of winning Arab friendship for the Western...
...third less than New Yorkers were paying, but Canadian housewives thought the prices outrageous. In Ottawa they paraded with a papier-mâché cow, demanding a rollback. They would certainly protest more loudly if prices jumped again-as prices certainly would if the government lifted the embargo on beef shipments to the U.S. Yet cattlemen in Calgary, selling choice steers for record prices as high as $23.70 a cwt., griped because the embargo was still...
Ever since war's end the government had intended to lift the embargo (imposed in 1942 at President Roosevelt's request) as soon as it could be done without upsetting the butcher's cart. That day never came. First, the embargo had to be kept to insure a full domestic supply while heavy shipments went to Britain. When it looked as though the British shipments would taper off, there was always some technical reason for keeping the embargo a little longer...
Cattlemen kept hammering the government to restore their "natural market" (TIME, Jan. 12, 26). Last month, Agriculture Minister James Gardiner boldly announced that the embargo was coming off "soon." It looked like a shrewd move to win friends in the west and help Gardiner capture the Liberal Party leadership in August. But the mere promise of action sent cattle and beef prices up. That made consumers sore. And when Gardiner's great day seemed too long a-coming, cattlemen growled their disappointment...