Word: quota
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...news to hear a New Dealer recognize what all businessmen know: "that a minimum volume is necessary to break even on fixed expenses." That, he said, was "the significance of the President's quota of an $80,000,000,000 national income. It is in no sense an argument for a permanent unbalancing of the Federal budget...
...gallery full of Rodins in Lincoln Park). Rumor in San Francisco was that the Fascist Government authorized the loan to San Francisco rather than New York City because Mussolini was in a pet about New York's Mayor LaGuardia. More likely story: having spent her full fair quota on a pavilion at the New York Fair, Italy had nothing but art to send to San Francisco...
Although he has just left his homeland under the quota, Prager did not wish to make any statement concerning conditions there since his family remains behind. Met at the dock by Dr. Cecilia Gaposchkin and her husband of the Astronomy Department, he was taken to their home for the day pending the making of definite plans...
Harvard's record-breaking contribution of 173 percent of its quota raised the total of the School and College group to 135 per cent of its quota. The raised the Institutions division total to 112 per cent of its quota...
...contributed 73 per cent above its quota of $15,000, but the 2705 subscribers do not include members of the Faculty or Administrative staffs in the University, Medical or Dental Schools which together donated a total...