Word: embargoed
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...Imposed an arms embargo...
...Fearful that an embargo might mean war, cautiously postponed (in Foreign Relations Committee) action to embargo trade with Japan. "The Committee fired a few blank cartridges and then fell back," said Texas' Tom Connally (who next day fell ill of heart trouble...
...recent Arita speech in which the Foreign Minister spoke of "economic cooperation and collaboration" with "South Seas regions." Hugh Byas, the New York Times'?, man in Tokyo, believed that "collaboration" meant "more than cultivation of mutual trade." He speculated on the possibility of a U. S. embargo on oil exports to Japan, and the subsequent necessity of the Japanese Navy finding needed supplies elsewhere...
...given until March 1 to withdraw from Finland, after which an embargo will go into effect...
...Yorkers were selling spot rubber and pig tin (both of which the U. S. must import) for reexport through Amtorg, chief U. S. purchasing agent of the Soviet Government. War and Navy Department officials, having failed to build stockpiles of these essentials, cracked down with a "moral embargo." Said they, nipping one 500-ton sale of pig tin in the bud, ". . . Unless the method of voluntary cooperation can be counted upon to operate with complete effectiveness it will become necessary to use other means." U. S. heavy industry experts, their talents needed in domestic bottlenecks, have also been summoned home...