Word: quota
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...method of instruction or the general approach to the subject at Harvard differed sufficiently from that used in preparatory schools, there might be some reason for requiring men who have already had their quota of science in school to take a course in college. In some other fields this is the case. But the elementary science courses differ from school courses only in being slightly more intensive...
...accordance with the International Sugar Agreement of 1930, President Grau last week set Cuba's sugar production quota for 1934 and allotted the picayune total of 1,500,000 tons for export to the U. S. There is no way of negotiating for an increase in that allotment until President Roosevelt recognizes the Grau Government. Thus the present allotment effectually sentences Cuba to economic bankruptcy. Everything depended last week on what President Roosevelt's new personal representative, Jefferson Caffery, would...
Through Commercial Attache Maurice Garreau-Dombasle. the French Govern- ment announced that if the wine quota were doubled to 1,568,000 gal., France was prepared to quadruple its U. S. apple & pear imports to 900.000 bu. That seemed fair enough until it was learned that the thrifty French were quietly planning to up the tariff on U. S. fruits. This joker discovered, M. Garreau-Dombasle was required to present assurances from his Government that the fruit tariff would not be raised. He did, and the ratio of the international trade stood roughly thus: Frenchmen would eat two pecks...
...executing the fruit-wine trade, Mr. Miller set the first pattern for other quota bargainings between foreign liquor exporters and U. S. agricultural exporters...
...half-inch "lifts." His great-great-grandfather was one of John Jacob Astors sea captains. His wife, onetime Cinemactress Dixie Lee, calls him the Crooner. Says Crosby : "I'd like to be able to sing like the crooners. The reason is a crooner gets his quota of sentimentality with half his natural voice. That's a great saving. I don't like to work." Convention City (First National) is a glib, disorganized batch of footnotes on a familiar aspect of U. S. business. It deals with the Atlantic City convention of the Honeywell Rubber Co. President...