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...controls having been clamped on, all parties at once took great pains to make it politely clear that export control did not mean embargo. Full stoppage of trade, tsk-tsk'd Mr. Sayre unctuously, was not intended. He wanted "a minimum of dislocation" of normal business. The Japanese, no fools, had anticipated plenty of "dislocation"; in April and May they had bought everything in the Philippines that wasn't nailed down, including $353,600 worth of iron ore. They knew that licensing meant slow strangulation: the application of licensing to U.S.-Japanese trade had brought exports to Japan...
...only woman licensed as a navigator on U. S. inland waterways," or words to that erroneous effect. Tsk...
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...Tsk! Tsk! Reader Smith ought to know better than interfere in a family quarrel. Italy's present imports of oil are around 2,000,000 tons a year. This does not include imports for naval and military use (estimated at another 1,000,000 tons) which do not pass through the customs. The Italian oil company which has the exploitation of Albania's oil resources produced 120,-ooo tons last year, and hopes (perhaps over-sanguinely) to produce 300,000 tons...