Word: embargoed
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...British insist that they scrupulously adhere to the U.N. embargo on shipments of war materials, but their assurances leave scope for convenient "exceptions." Whitehall's definition of the term non-strategic is more elastic than the State Department's. Example: Britain regards railroad equipment as non-strategic; the U.S. officially bans everything, so far as its own traders are concerned, and has persuaded its European partners to ban 260 items as strategic.* Most dismaying of all in Britain's case, the Foreign Office admitted that until very recently it had turned a blind eye towards British flag...
...Within days of the U.S. decision to embargo imported dairy products, Russian trade agents snapped up Swedish dried milk...
insisted on trading with Communist China until a U.S. embargo stopped him. Rugged Individualist Isbrandtsen once remarked: "You are almost a scoundrel to be in business these days." Died. Oren Edgar ("Kickapoo Ed") Summers, 68, oldtime Detroit Tiger pitcher (1908-12), whose 18-inning scoreless game (pitched in 1909, against the Washington Senators) still stands as a record; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Indianapolis...
...Franklin Roosevelt's day, Dunn became a special assistant to, and croquet-playing friend of Secretary of State Hull. During the Spanish Civil War, as Hull's respected political adviser in European affairs, he was a powerful influence in holding U.S. policy to an embargo on arms for both sides in Spain-to the chagrin of the U.S. left wing. Secretary of State Stettinius appointed him Assistant Secretary in 1944, and he was started on his ambassadorial round-to Italy...
...Asia, a naval blockade and an appeal for a tighter U.N. embargo of Red China are under "very careful scrutiny" in the State Department...