Word: quota
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There will be no lack of material for the football team, for the class of 1937 contains its full quota of athletes who have achieved distinction on their preparatory school teams, Among those who should add lustre to the athletic record of the class are T. H. Bilodeau, Jr., star back of Phillips Exeter Academy; G. S. Ford, Belmont High School quarterback and his teammate, L. A. Ecker; M. B. McTernen, Jr., halfback of the Andover Academy team; F. J. Owens, quarterback and captain of the Mercersburg Academy eleven; Emile Dubell, Fairhaven High School fullback; W. H. Lane, Jr., captain...
...crude oil prices per bbl. to be 18.5 times as high as the gasoline price. By way of compromise the whole question of price was, however, left subject to change by a committee of 15 to be appointed by the President. The committee is to "recommend" to States the quota production they should permit and by forbidding greater shipments in interstate commerce will enforce its "recommendations." Furthermore, withdrawal of oil from storage is limited to 100,000 bbl. a day for the rest...
...public eulogies. What Cuba fears is that the U.S. beet sugar producers and the cane sugar men from Florida, Louisiana, Puerto Rico, Hawaii and the Philippines may succeed in their present drive at the U.S. Department of Agriculture to have U.S. imports of Cuban sugar reduced by a drastic quota to 1,700,000 short tons per annum-less than Cuba has exported to the U.S. in any year during the past generation. Cubans hoped that President Roosevelt would support their plea for a quota of not less than 2,200,000 short tons. Ever since the U.S. helped Cuba...
...last week no state law to limit oil production had ever been wholly effective because unscrupulous producers, large and small, persisted in bootlegging more than their legal quotas outside the state. This "hot oil," it was estimated, represented about one-fifth of the entire daily production of petroleum-enough to nullify any agreement between honest men to hold down output, stabilize prices. In violation of local proration regulations it was smuggled by secret pipe lines, shipped across state lines in regular tank cars. It was mixed with legitimately produced oil at refineries. Real enforcement of state quota laws required nothing...
...associations for the barter of goods and services. The late unpleasantness involving Mr. Morgan has been capably treated by Ernest McDougall, and C. W. Eliot, 2d, reviewed with grateful incision the current thought on national planning. From these examples it may be inferred that Polity does not lack its quota of arresting names, and, more important, that its interests are both diverse and contemporary...