Word: quota
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Roosevelt, ever apt at Compromise, worked out an agreement aimed to conciliate the beet industry, to help Cuba and regain the U. S. market there. He proposed (TIME, Feb. 19) to quota sugar production for the beet industry and provide import quotas for the U. S. islands and for Cuba. With sugar made a basic commodity and imports controlled, a processing tax would be applied in the U. S. to subsidize beet sugar producers. The quotas which the President proposed were liberal to U.S. producers compared to past performances...
...sugar beet industry Quota (tons) 1,450,000 1932-33 (tons...
Louisiana & Florida Quota (tons) 260,000 1932-33 (tons...
...Adopted 39-to-28 the Conference re port on the Bankhead Cotton Control Bill, virtually in the form in which it was originally passed by the House (to limit cotton production to 10,000,000 bales by imposing a 50% tax on any cotton farmers produce above their quotas - and no quota exemptions for small farmers...
...without some foundation, that a large group of Sophomores who were shuttled out of their chosen House to correct the cross-section makeup, intended to leave the Houses and to secure lodgings outside. Much of the agitation came from Kirkland House which received more than its ordinary quota from the socially prominent men. Complaints during the previous year, that Kirkland House was a "social desert" together with the building of Bryant Hall during the summer resulted in the concentration of many outstanding men in the Class of 1937 there...