Word: quota
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...report to the president, published this morning, Mr. Pennypacker suggests that the annual quota for men admitted to the Freshman class be more flexible. For some eight years the quota was fixed at 1,000, until last fall 161 additional Freshmen were allowed to register. The sudden increase, Mr. Pennypacker reveals rather naively, was due largely to a miscalculation, but the Committee feels that due to the greater number and improved quality of applicants, the restriction of the class to 1,000 can well be permanently abandoned...
...wrong with the U. S. First Great Name to open last week's hearing was Bernard Mannes Baruch. His advice: "Balance the Budget. Tax everybody for everything. Take hungry men off the world's pavements." He proposed the following farm relief plan: Let the Government allot production quotas on corn, cotton, wheat and tobacco and then lease the farm land thus left idle at an average of $3 per acre per year, thereby compensating the producer for accepting his quota; let the Government collect a processing tax not upon individual products but upon all agricultural commodities to raise...
...Italian business holds itself ready to withstand yet further trials." The withstanding machinery consists in part of decrees protecting the worker from either wage cuts or upping of retail prices, except in specific cases by assent of the State. Italian farm prices have thus far been supported by import quota restrictions. Tuberculin tests are invoked to exclude much foreign cattle. The Fascist Press ceaselessly thunders, "Buy Italian!" Speculation on Italian stock exchanges is now checked with such rigor that prices and trading have long been stagnant...
...Last week Soviet Premier Molotov and Secretary Stalin of the Communist Party signed a joint decree putting into effect the recently rumored "fixed farm produce tax" (TIME, Jan. 9). Up to now the more a Soviet peasant grew the more he had to deliver to the State. Hereafter his quota will be fixed by Feb. 15 each year and will stay fixed, thus encouraging the peasant to grow as large a surplus as possible for his own use and to sell at sky-high open-market prices. Peasants who do not fulfill their quota "will be treated as criminals" according...
...times have overtaken the foreign language Press in the U. S. The Immigration Quota Act of 1924 laid it low by cutting the influx of foreigners from 700,000 in that year to 35,000 last year. Depression has put a number of gasping sheets out of misery. Last fortnight saw the passing of two more: the 75-year-old New Jersey Freie Zeitung, and the famed old Milwaukee Vorwaerts, founded 40 years ago by the late Socialist Victor Louis Berger...