Word: quota
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Federal Alcohol Control Administration to rule the industry without benefit of any liquor representatives; 2) no additions to present plant capacity except by a certificate of necessity from the F. A. C. A. and absolute control of production and distribution through a quota system; 3) power to fix prices; 4) an agreement with the Secretary of Agriculture to pay "parity" prices established by him for raw materials. Administration of the separate codes for brewers, importers and distributors, which come up for hearings this week, was also to be placed in the hands of the omnipotent...
...reinstated in the Association. Last week Dr. Athearn was ousted from his job by Butler's board of directors. They gave no reason, merely cited their right to appoint and remove presidents at pleasure. Most Butlerites said it was because Butler was not getting its full quota of students...
...important item: Tokio has its gourmandish eyes strongly focused on Vladivostok and the Maritime Provinces, of which it is the keypoint. Back in 1919, shortly after the war, Japan, who had joined the Allies in intervening against the Red government from Archangel, landed about three times its quota of troops and was on the point of annexing Siberia forthwith, and was only stopped by President Wilson, who had the whiphand in the naval bargaining going on among the Allies in Washington. The actions of the last year or so have made it embarassingly obvious that the attempt to slice away...
...Gentlemen," said Comrade Gourevitch last week, "Russia must have an export quota of at least 75,000,000 bushels-at least...
...delegates, frail, pallid Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Robert W. Bingham and smart, sharp-nosed John Van Antwerp MacMurray, newly appointed Minister to Latvia, Estonia & Lithuania, promptly tried to save the Wheat Pact by proposing to offer Russia a quota 8,000,000 bu. greater than her hypothetical allotment...