Word: quota
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heads, that clothing dealers are bothered by the growing tendency to leave off undershirts. Author of slogans like "No Metal Can Touch You" and "If You Wore Them Around Your Neck You'd Change Them More Frequently," he lately started a campaign to make men wear their full quota of clothes and accessories. Last week his campaign resulted in the creation of a body called the National Men's Apparel Commission to counterattack nudism...
...tour of South America, did all the heavy speech-making himself. Prince George seemed to perk up and catch on. Senoritas praised his dancing, called him "more fascinating than the Prince of Wales." His digestion seemed to improve. He seemed to be able to drink his royal quota of champagne. By careful practice he learned to speak so exactly like the Prince of Wales that equerries to the royal brothers vow that with their eyes shut they cannot tell which prince is which...
...think of as U. S. colonies.* His appointment as "Minister of Colonies" promptly threw Hawaii, relatively comfortable and prosperous, into a state of alarm. Not happy over its treatment by Dr. Tugwell, an editor of The New Republic (Island sugar planters last week filed suit against the sugar quota he had set for them), Hawaii feared what might befall it at the hands of Dr. Gruening, an ex-editor of The Nation. For nothing does Hawaii dread more than that the New Deal's doctors, medical and philosophical, may cause map-makers to tint U. S. possessions with the color...
...wreck of the World Economic Conference last year the International Wheat Conference salvaged and signed an export quota agreement which acts of the Almighty have greatly assisted its signatories to keep (TIME, Sept. 11). Of the Big Four signatories?U.S., Argentina, Canada and Australia?only Argentina has wholly escaped the searing blight of drought, and last week only Argentina had broken her agreement, exporting 34,000,000 more bushels of wheat than the 110,000,000 she accepted as her limit. Even so drought has struck savagely enough to keep the Big Four from exceeding their combined quota...
...sandy land in East Texas where geologists, oil promoters, wild-cat speculators rushed by the thousands in October 1930 to plant a forest of derricks almost overnight. Despite everything the Federal Government could do to curb its lawless elements, East Texas has persistently produced more than its Federal quota. In that hottest spot on the oil map, "hot oil" has been a fighting word for years. Last week, the Texas Railroad Commission was still impotent to stop "hot oil." This week the State of Texas, led by Governor Miriam ("Ma") Ferguson, will get busy with a special session...