Word: embargoed
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...silent yards from St. Louis to Washington, thousands of freight cars stood on the sidings, many of them loaded with high-priority defense materials. An avalanche of Christmas packages clogged the post offices and a partial embargo was slapped on mail. The Railway Express Agency suspended service in 15 states; steel and auto companies began banking their furnaces, shutting down production lines...
...diplomatic smoke and steam, there was no real doubt in Ottawa or elsewhere that Canada stood squarely with the U.S. if total war proved to be the fateful outcome. Almost as a token of this, when the U.S. ordered an embargo on trade with Communist China last week, the Dominion immediately followed suit...
...exporting 75,000 tons of British newsprint this year to Australia (whose newspapers run as high as 48 pages), it had choked off almost all Canadian newsprint imports to save $7,-500,000 in Canadian credits. Scandinavian suppliers, quick to take advantage of the shortage created by the Canadian embargo, had boosted prices to Britain in 10 months from ?30 to ?35 a ton. Higher prices alone, warned the Sunday Express' Editor John Gordon, would put "many newspapers in 'Queer Street,' " and probably force a number of marginal provincial papers out of business...
...Chicago, which, in Ojibwa, means "wild onion place," onions were indeed running wild. So many carloads of onions poured in and jammed railroad yards and warehouses last week that the Association of American Railroads slapped an embargo on further shipments. Reason for the glut: farmers had held their onions off the market in hopes that last autumn's cloud-high prices would reach the stratosphere (TIME, Sept. 26). But when the prices started to drop, farmers hurriedly dumped their holdings. Under the avalanche, prices collapsed. From a high of $5.05 a 50-lb. sack last September, onions skidded...
Honest Mike. Ruth and Mike made a fine team, especially when it came to crusading for the Communist Party. "We had our hands full," says Author McKenney, whose sense of humor is not deep, "with the arms embargo, Prime Minister Chamberlain, the Anti-Lynch bill, and related problems." But now, at 38, she cannot but smile as she recalls some of the differences that stood between her and her husband in those youthful days, e.g., his conviction (the result of his gentle upbringing) that one should always pay one's bills. "I was truly shocked when Mike informed...