Word: quota
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sell potatoes without such containers and stamps. No farmer can get the necessary official stamps unless he 1) pays a tax of 45¢ a bushel, or 2) receives tax-exemption stamps from the Secretary of Agriculture. No farmer can get tax-exemption stamps except for a potato production quota allotted him by the Secretary of Agriculture. No farmer can get a quota unless he makes an application supported by evidence 1) proving that potatoes were raised on his farm in 1932, 1933, or 1934, and 2) showing how many potatoes he raised and sold in past years...
...Dwight Lyman Moody on Round Top near East Northfield, Mass. Missionaries, laymen, church delegations, Bible students, nationals in native costume and two Salvation Army bands-2,000 people in all-marched down to the small New England town. They carried placards: BUILD FRIENDSHIP, NOT BATTLESHIPS-ADMIT JAPANESE ON THE QUOTA BASIS - RELIGION RENOUNCES...
...showing Elizabeth clinging to her lover despite her regret at the pain she caused her husband; 2) going on with her plans to remarry despite her agony at her son's disapproval of her course; 3) living beyond the usual happy ending of remarriage and accepting her quota of human doubts and regrets...
Catalyst in the New Deal's complex rehabilitation formula was the Jones-Costigan Act, which established a quota system for both imports and domestic production. Hardly less important was a reduction in the tariff on Cuban sugar from 2? to nine-tenths of a cent per lb. Net result was a closed system (taking in the U.S., its insular possessions and Cuba), in which AAA could dictate supply, if not demand. Western sugar beet growers received a fat quota and benefit payment from a processing tax; duty-free producers in Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Philippines got higher prices...
Throughout last year the sugar market was in continual turmoil, harassed by quotas, taxes, tariffs, squeezes, innumerable AAA regulations and periodic stampedes to get sugar under this or that barrier. At the start of this year the future was beclouded by 240,000 tons of sugar carried over from last year's quota. The U.S. had used less sugar than AAA expected because canning and preserving was curtailed by the Drought. But in the first four months of this year, the big Manhattan sugar house of Lamborn & Co. estimates, consumption ran some 13.5% ahead of the same period...