Word: quota
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Greatly dismayed was U. S. Ambassador Claude Gernade Bowers who hastened to Foreign Minister Leandro Pita Romero to deplore the unhappy effect of the new verdict on U. S. public opinion just at the time when Spain wants an increase in its U. S. import quota for Spanish wines...
...plan of control which, if adopted, would mean telling every farmer not only what he can plant, but how much will be accepted from him when he comes to dispose of his product. Thus, at the cotton gin, if a farmer brings a supply in excess of a quota prescribed for him, he will have to take it back or pay a tax that will be prohibitive. This would cause a loss on the surplus of his crop. The idea would be to discourage him from doing it again...
...course, it works with respect to cotton, the same quota policy and tax penalty could be operated with respect to wheat or corn or any other farm crop. It may involve control of every plowed field and the 6,000,000 farmers of the country...
...will be a number of 3-and 4-card suits typical of weak hands. Poor shuffling does not correct this tendency. After examining hundreds of hands dealt after one, two, three and four shuffles, Mr. Woodruff shows that it takes at least four good shuffles to produce the proper quota of uneven distribution. With the help of an M. I. T. colleague, he has invented a machine controlled by a 52-lobe irregular cam which is designed to deal a pack into hands of the ideal random type in four seconds...
According to the new scheme, 180 players will graduate from the sectional qualifying rounds next August directly into the tournament match-play at Brookline, Mass. in September. Former champions will be exempt from qualifying. With the enlarged quota of eligibles (180 instead of 160) there is less chance of able players being eliminated in qualifying play...