Word: embargos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When informed of this belief, Mr. Zeehandler sold some hippos, some rhinos, and some long necked giraffes and obtained Hermione Esmerelda. He proceeded to contact John Foster Dulles, who declared that Hermione Esmerelda could not come to the United States. Such an import, said he, would violate an embargo on trade with Communist China...
While competing harder in Britain, the Reds are also wooing British businessmen with orders as part of their campaign to get the embargo on East-West trade eased. In London last week a Soviet trade mission announced one of its biggest catches to date. With Rustyfa, a combine of British companies, the Russians placed an equipment order of between $28 million and $42 million for one of the biggest tire factories outside the U.S. To be built at Dnepropetrovsk in the Ukraine, the plant will turn out 2,000,000 tires a year...
...ending what amounts to a moral embargo on Tito, the United States can make it unnecessary for him to have to deal with communist states. Beyond making it unnecessary, there is little else we can do but hope that he decides it will also be unprofitable in the long...
...radioactive iodine 131. The cows of Geiger Gulch were eating contaminated grass, and the concentration of iodine 131 in their milk and thyroid glands was building up. No sample was found to be really dangerous, but as a precaution, all milk from 150 farms was ordered dumped. Later the embargo was extended to 1,000 more farms...
EXPORTS TO RED CHINA from Japan are expected to double by 1959. Following lead of Britain, West Germany and other West European nations, Japan lifted strategic embargo on 272 items, including trucks, cars, electric motors, lathes and railroad equipment...