Word: quota
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...French Government abandons in principle though retaining temporarily the irksome quota system under which U. S. cinemakers have to buy one French film for every seven U. S. productions they sell in France, thus obliging them virtually to subsidize the French Cinema Trust...
...present one-for-seven quota is to remain in force until Oct. 1, 1930 and, if agreement has not then been reached on the new levy, will be extended for another year...
Last March the U. S. cinema interests in France, well knowing that Cineman Sapene had all but persuaded the French Government to tighten the one-for-seven quota to a struggling one-for-four, retaliated by refusing to release any new films in France until this threat was removed. As a result hundreds of French exhibitors have been losing money all summer, since their patrons would not come in paying numbers to see U. S. films left over from last winter or the distinctly inferior products of the French Cinema Trust. Last week's truce was no sooner signed than...
...Film Quota. Vital to U. S. business was the interminable debate on France's film quota law, a law providing that only four foreign films (instead of seven, as now) may be imported into France for each French film produced. U. S. film men, when passage of the law seemed certain several weeks ago, threatened to withdraw all films from France at once. French exhibitors, knowing their patrons' preference for U. S. films, immediately protested. The quota law hung fire...
...bakeries and to 250,000 groceries, delicatessens, hotels and other retail outlets. No jobbers are used?delivery is direct from 900 Fleischmann agencies. Fleischmann's operates a transportation subsidiary which has 200 railroad cars, 2,000 trucks, 5,000 employes. Every Fleischmann retailer knows that his scheduled quota of yeast will arrive as certainly as his morning paper, his morning milk, his day's mail...