Word: quota
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...radio. he delivered a seven minute address. Shrewdly he titillated Hawaiians by espousing their favorite claim: "Your Administration in Washington will not forget that you are in very truth an integral part of the nation.'' But nothing did he say of increasing the islands' sugar quota or continuing the historical policy of appointing Governors only from residents of the islands-the two chief reasons for Hawaii's claim of "integrality." An expected part of the President's address, a declaration of good intentions towards Japan, did not materialize. He simply said: "The Army and Navy...
Because spring frost delayed and summer drought blighted the German potato crop the blockade had to be relaxed in July to admit Italian, Dutch and Belgian potatoes, but it was jerked tight last week. German importers groaned as they were cut down for August 1934 to a quota of only 5% of their average monthly imports for 1931. Meanwhile the textile industry factories were put under pressure to weave artificial fibres into their cloth by an order from the Tsar forcing factories which do not use such substitutes to cut their production hours from 48 to 36 per week. Since...
...advance around May 1 when wheat was 78¢ and traders were beginning to see the effects of drought. Last week futures were selling at 97¢ to $1.05, spot at $1.12. Liverpool traders were more complacent: early reports on the Canadian crop had been favorable and Argentina, ignoring her export quota fixed at the London Wheat Conference last August, had plenty of wheat for sale. The Liverpool price at the end of May was around 72¢. Not until mid-June, when drought news from Canada became alarming, did Liverpool traders begin to push the price. October wheat at Liverpool last week...
...manifold stewardship. In the realm of diplomacy his Government has all but isolated Germany, won Russia's strong support and obtained the backing of Britain and Italy for the Eastern Locarno Pact (TIME, July 23). When Premier Doumergue took office France was embroiled in bitter tariff and quota disputes with Britain, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Switzerland. Now all of these have been ironed out by trade treaties. Only in arming France has Gastounet been extravagant. He has forced through supplemental appropriations of over three billion francs to complete the French system of superfrontier defenses by 1940. But in this...
Last spring when the Costigan-Jones sugar restriction bill was under consideration, they were disappointed when President Roosevelt proposed a Hawaiian sugar quota of only 935,000 tons whereas the average annual production on the island for the last three years has been about 1,000,000 tons. They were still more chagrined when Congress, after upping the quota of mainland beet-sugar producers 100,000 tons above the President's request, left the quota for Hawaii to be fixed by Undersecretary of Agriculture Tugwell. In proportioning quotas between Hawaii, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the Philippines, Brain...