Word: quota
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wrathful defense of their wines Australian editors lashed President Roosevelt last week, demanding that Australian Premier Joseph Aloysius Lyons "take reprisal" for Washington's omission of Australia from the list of countries assigned a quota for U. S. import of their wines (TIME...
...gospelers for their infant industry, Australians insisted last week that if U. S. citizens are denied the delights of Australian Para Port, Michenbury Sparkling Burgundy and Chateau Tanunda Brandy, then Premier Lyons must restrict by quota the import into Australia of U. S. motor cars. Premier Lyons, calmer than most of his fellow citizens, made no open threats, quietly approached President Roosevelt through diplomatic channels as one "good neighbor'' to another...
...author of Wednesday's editorial on "Military and Naval Sciences" must have spent a sleepless Tuesday night. He does not seem to mind the R.O.T.C. units if there are enough bloodthirsty cut-throats in the student body to fill the quota of the courses, but he insists that the University should not be tricked by the Government into allowing the required four courses to count for the degree. Such militarism dropped in the yard is subversive to the lefty, and liberal standards of the University. Such is his lament...
...committee of ten, subject to Federal approval, to fix prices. But FACA could revise these prices, hold tight rein over all phases of the industry. Increase of plant capacity over Dec. 5 output was forbidden, except under special circumstances. FACA had power to control production and distribution through a quota system. The Agricultural Adjustment Administration, under whose direction the liquor industry fell, had inserted a stipulation that the industry pay "parity" prices for its raw materials. In short, it was the code which most distillers had feared and hated and which they had no part in drafting...
...Montreal to debate McGill University. The team has already made two outside debates, and these two trips bring the total for the fall season to four. This is one of the largest schedules of fall trips the team has had. Four trips has often been considered a large quota for a full year's season. This series of trips marks the renewal of the Debating Council's policy of going afield...