Word: quota
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Each restaurant has its liquor quota. When this has been exceeded liquor may still be sold, but the proprietor is then legally compelled to dispense it at the price which he paid to the Monopoly Stores. Thus exceeding one's quota means not profit but loss, and Swedish restaurant proprietors are canny...
Immigration from all countries (except Canada and Mexico) is restricted by the quota system...
...Einstein, rich and smart "career diplomat," and U.S. Minister to Czechoslovakia, was accorded every mark of respect as it wheeled into the courtyard of the Czechoslovak Foreign Ministry. Alighting briskly suave Mr. Einstein stepped within and soon deposited a formal demand from the U.S. State Department that the annual quota set upon U. S. motor cars imported into Czechoslovakia shall be raised this year by a cool...
Naturally U.S. motor men are vexed by the motor quota system, just as are Czechoslovaks by the U.S. immigration quota. But the need of developing a Czechoslovak motor industry is considered vital, and therefore a protective quota operates against even the Allied countries which secured independence for Czechoslovakia after the War. However, the "demand" presented by Minister Einstein, last week, was courteous and purely formal. Negotiations have long been smoothly under way to raise the U.S. motor quota to an annual total of 30% of present Czechoslovak production...
...Serenades are given once a week at Arnold, Constable's to the department that has exceeded its week's quota of sales. A small rolling piano and several professional singers invade the department leading in sales for the week and proceed to sing its praises in terms of popular songs. Unfortunately customers are not in on this; it takes place in the morning, just before the store opens...