Word: quota
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Presiding at the I. R. R. C. meeting in London last week, as he did fortnight ago at the International Tin Committee meeting which lifted tin production quotas to 110% of 1929 levels without abating a mad metal market (TIME, March 22), was precise Sir John Campbell, economic and financial adviser to the British Colonial Office. Whatever Sir John's first considerations were as he walked into the highceilinged committee room in Brettenham House next to Waterloo Bridge, the problem at hand was essentially one of trying to keep skyrocketing rubber prices from knobbling the British armament race without...
...place to start is at the top. At present student representation on the chief committee consists of three major sport men appointed by the H.A.A. Because of the administrative details which concern this Committee, the H.A.A. should retain this right, but of its quota should select at least one minor sports representative...
...compared with some $38,000,000 the year before. But the rate of growth in small airconditioning concerns like Trane has been impressive. In 1933 Trane's sales were a piffling $743,000. Two years later they were $1,700,000. For 1937 the company has set a quota of $5,300,000, which would be 75% better than...
What Dr. Murchison & colleagues did was done with Occidental rapidity in less than ten days. Between entertainments of feudal courtesy and visits to the great clean mills of Osaka, they persuaded the Japanese textile barons to call an immediate halt on U. S. business, establishing as the quota for this year just 155,000,000 yd. of cotton piece goods, exactly the amount of business booked for U. S. delivery three days preceding the agreement. The surprisingly tractable Japanese further agreed that the situation in 1937 was abnormal, accepted a quota of 100,000,000 yd. for 1938 with...
Furthermore, Japan had gained a potent friend in hostile business territory. How valuable this friendship might prove was indicated last week when Dr. Murchison urged U. S. importers to handle Japanese quota goods "without hesitation...