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...ducks are shot to the south of the line. Also that 6,500,000 licenses are annually issued in the U. S. and that in some States there is open season the year around leads us to question the right of Americans who are clamoring at Ottawa for an embargo on duck and geese shooting in Canada this year...
...shock to Californians, for Mr. Talbot was the Pacific Coast's big example of a boom-made man. Two decades ago he was clerking for Western Pipe and Steel Co., later was its president. He made smart deals, such as securing an option on Japanese steel under embargo during the War, selling to the Government when steel became scarce and the embargo was lifted. His drive and Mr. Fuller's flashy marketing and advertising ideas kept Richfield running its rapid expansion course. He was quiet in business, rewarded justly and reprimanded mercilessly. He was an air enthusiast, held...
...classifications on Canada's tariff list 174 were upped. Also, one embargo was laid. Totally excluded from the Dominion by this embargo are all secondhand automobiles except those brought in by "tourists" or "settlers...
...reprisals. Most drastic and clean-cut fulfillment of these fears came when Canada, biggest U. S. customer, frankly upped all her rates to match. France and England, though taking no action (except on cinemas in France), complained so loudly that much ill-will was bred. Australia's almost complete embargo was a nationalistic move after the U. S. pattern. Only a series of revolutions have checked wall-building in South America, but meantime ill-will has increased...
Softly Mr. Pei next breathed a threat that if Occidental countries do not cooperate with China in rehabilitating silver she may retaliate by an embargo against all silver imports. Today China buys more silver than any other country, and the Occident is anxious to sell. But Threatener Pei hastily added that China is still open, wide open, to any and all favorable offers. These he proposed to crystallize by calling under I. C. C. auspices an International Silver Conference later this year. In 48 hours this Pei plan was whipped into shape?Senator King of Utah (silver State) aiding?...