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...merchant-ship tonnage. In U.S. ports, tanker traffic has increased proportionately as the nation has turned heavily to imports to meet its growing thirst for fuel. In 1966 the U.S. imported 940 million bbl. of oil and petroleum products. Now nearly three times as much is arriving in U.S. ports???about 300 million...
...major change in this sievelike border arrangement. What the U. S. wanted was to "close" the whole border, increase the ports of entry to 600, require international wayfarers to cross the line only through such ports. Every open country road would be barricaded. The increased number of entry ports???one about every five miles? would not cause any real inconvenience to those, like farmers, whose daily affairs take them back and forth across the border...
...American shipping interests which are vigorously opposed to the measure because it would allow British ships to sell liquor coming and going from U. S. ports???a disadvantage to American ships, which cannot...
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