Consequently, any Chamber of Commerce in a city whose merchants are adversely affected by rail Embargoes and delays, freight congestion, or lack of sufficient and direct rail transportation, and where there is any considerable number of motor trucks, will not be embarking upon a doubtful experiment in establishing such a bureau.
"Highway Transport Commitee Council of National Defence, Bulletin 1 Return-Loads Bureaus To Save Waste In Transportation"
US Government
Prohibitive tariffs, blacklists and boycotts, Embargoes on mail and cargo, the exclusion from England and France of hundreds of our manufactured articles-all show which way the international trade winds may blow when the belligerents begin to take toll of their losses.
"The War After the War"
Isaac Frederick Marcosson
This measure appears to have resembled the Embargoes so commonly resorted to in this country on similar occasions, rather than a total prohibition of trade.
"Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete Transcribed From The Shorthand Manuscript In The Pepysian Library Magdalene College Cambridge By The Rev. Mynors Bright"
Samuel Pepys Commentator: Lord Braybrooke