Word: embargos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must clear up is the statement that I resigned from the Marine Corps in 1939 to push my crusade. It is well known that I resigned to be free to tell the American people the facts about the rising Japanese threat and to urge them to demand an embargo on the shipment of war materials by many businessmen of this country to Japan...
...dead airmen. (Probable amount: between $300,000 and $400,000.) U.S. indemnity for the planes was still being discussed. Cautiously he skirted another, more compelling issue. To the suggestions that relief to Yugoslavia be stopped, he replied that that was a matter for UNRRA to decide; a U.S. embargo would be a violation of an international commitment, in which the U.S. is bound by the decisions of a nine-nation UNRRA central committee...
...make its strike more effective, the union also slapped an "embargo" on eight other carriers (Mackay Radio, etc.) who were not involved in the strike, i.e., the union forbade any of its nonstriking workers to transmit overseas news to any newspaper or news agency...
...executives and set them to manning the radio circuits, but PreWi was badly crippled. Expensive transocean telephone traffic soared as clients strove to keep the news coming from their correspondents overseas. Somehow a lot of news got through. At week's end, A.C.A. called off its embargo, agreed to return to work while the issue was arbitrated...
...people of serious blows ahead, called it "a national disaster." Hundreds of factories closed; many hundreds more were about to shut down for lack of coal or materials. Partial paralysis was creeping over the rail lines. Belatedly, drastic measures were applied. The Government declared a rail freight and express embargo, effective May 10, on all shipments except food, fuel and a few other essentials. Most industries could no longer ship or receive materials. Rail lines were ordered to curtail passenger service by half, effective May 15. Several lines, close to the bottom of their coal piles, took off trains...