Word: allotment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tobacco commissions from each state party to the compact shall sit together, estimate consumption for the type of tobacco in question, go home and allot quotas to each tobacco farm in each state, based on the quota system...
...Superintendent of Schools. Adult education is Commissioner Studebaker's strongest interest, and he believes that public discussion is the foundation of any adult program. Last week in a little book called Plain Talk,* he wistfully told what he would do if the U. S. Government were to allot him $70,000,000 for experimental purposes. He would train 10,000 forum leaders, set them to leading 50,000 forums a week all over...
...expedite matters Chairman Doughton last week personally undertook to weed out and allot time to those representatives of the tax-paying public who wanted to air their views before the Ways & Means Committee. Growled Republican Committeeman Allen Treadway of Massachusetts: "Any attempt to prevent the general public being heard to the fullest extent is certain to meet with severe condemnation." But the hearings went ahead with one main objective: to report a tax bill to the House by April...
...Supreme Court's sentence of death on NRA. But already miners and operators alike had begun to seek a new savior. They had picked the bill of Pennsylvania's Senator Joseph F. Guffey to declare bituminous coal a public utility; to set up a Federal Commission to allot coal production; to establish 21 regional marketing agreements to maintain minimum prices, wage and hour schedules for labor; to appropriate $300,000,000 to do these things and to buy up submarginal coal lands; to impose a tax of 3? to 9? a ton on coal...
...wish that each and every high school student in the land could see it, especially the munitions and Huey Long sequences and I shall certainly see that they are urged to do so in the next issue of Scholastic. It also occurs to me that Scholastic should definitely allot space to the March of Time, that we should not lose this opportunity to heartily recommend this exceptionally clear-sighted sizing up of what's going on in this world to the youth of the land...