Word: quota
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regard to Anthony Eden had begun. The Independent Conservative Evening News called him roundly "PUBLIC LIABILITY NO. 1" and remarked that His Majesty's Government are "bribing" the Government of Yugoslavia to "pretend" to support Sanctions by more than doubling the number of Yugoslav pigs permitted under British quota restrictions to be sold in the United Kingdom weekly...
...Congress wrestled long with the cotton problem, finally passed the Bankhead Act compelling cotton farmers to obey AAA by putting a heavy tax on anyone who produced more than his quota. Two months later Congress wrestled again and did the same thing for tobacco growers. Last summer Congress wrestled a third time, handed potato growers a similar gift. Last week Congress had a second thought on all three subjects...
...right standard for the advanced student's work. Examinations in courses designed for mediocre men would not do this so well and would only serve to take the honor student's attention away from learning by his own efforts. In addition, after two years of a full quota of courses, a student is likely to have acquired the "course" attitude, and this can only be changed by a vital reduction in requirements. Holding the general examinations at the end of both the Junior and Senior years, as is now done, in certain departments, and increasing their number would supplant...
...Moor v. Texas & New Orleans R.R. Co. Lee Moor is a Texas farmer with 3,500 acres, of which he normally devotes about 1,600 to growing cotton. Last year he grew some 2,700 bales of cotton, but, under the Bankhead Act, he was allotted a quota of only 855 bales, for which he was given tax-free tags...
...days after Mrs. Newkirk's letter went out, John B. Hutson, AAA's potato director, announced that the automatic tax-free potato quota would not be 5 bu. (as fixed by law) but 50 bu. (as fixed by executive discretion). Republican ladies could still infringe the law by selling a few bushels of potatoes without applying for a quota but to do a good job of law defiance they would have to tear up considerable shrubbery around their homes and do some sizeable potato landscaping...