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...Prices of canned citrus fruits fell one-third in some cities. In Florida and Texas, prices of citrus fruits were down 50% to 60% from last year, as a bumper crop was harvested. The glut was so great, and prices so low, that packers and growers slapped a temporary embargo .on shipments, trying to keep prices up in northern markets. Eggs were down generally 3? a dozen; meat and lard dropped an average...
...Truman strategy. Hundreds of thousands were out of work, and angry. Every day the strike lasted, more were thrown out of work. Hundreds of trains were shunted out of service. The thousands of citizens who had jammed postoffices with Christmas bundles to beat the Government's rail embargo on freight, parcel post and express shipments, raised their voices against Lewis...
...White House GHQ, with everything staked on bringing Lewis to his knees, planned an even stricter embargo. They wheeled up other heavy weapons: an all-out Presidential speech, the threat of another fine, the sending of troops to guard the mines...
...would have to divert their entire supply of gas to domestic consumers.) Ford, Chrysler and Hudson used the Thanksgiving weekend as an excuse for temporary shutdowns. Unless the coal strike ended, 500,000 autoworkers would be out of work by Christmas. They would be out sooner if an embargo was clamped on all but essential freight...
Railroads, declaring that the halt of coal and other shipments had improved their supply of locomotive fuel, doubted that such an embargo would be necessary. Nevertheless, there was so much talk about it in Washington that the railroaders had embargo plans ready. If it were put into effect, not only autos but almost every other big & little industry would be frozen...