Word: quota
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Warner Bros, had two reasons for a British studio: 1) to evade quota restrictions which state that 10% of all cinemas exhibited in England must be British-made; 2) to improve facilities for making pictures with foreign backgrounds or foreign language pictures for consumption outside the U. S. Paramount has had a studio at Joinville, France, for two years, got a controlling interest in England's Elstree Studios two months ago. Universal is now negotiating for a Paris studio where first scheduled production is a French version of Little Accident...
...great pools. Oil prices, under this threat, climbed to 50? within a week. There they remained as Aug. 1 came and went. When no shut-in order was forthcoming, oilmen opened pipe-line valves at their gushers, started their pumps to get as much of their August quota as possible above ground and catch any price rise. To their charge of bluffing Governor Murray retorted: "I won't be rushed into this. When I'm ready to shoot, I want to give a lot of these people a lesson in constitutional...
Problem No. 3: Distribution. Poland's Chief Delegate Adam Rose proposed that an International Wheat Quota Board be set up with power to impose an agreed limit on the monthly exports of each wheat exporting nation. Such rigid control has become increasingly popular in Europe, where "steel cartels" and such are common. Lawyer Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne of New York has persuaded the world's sugar growers to adopt such a plan, though similar plans failed in the rubber, coffee, tin and several other industries. The U. S. farmer through his representatives in Congress would probably reject working under...
...Soviet Delegation in a somewhat devious statement accepted part of the Polish plan, and all delegations except the U. S. favored a quota system of some sort. Uncle Sam alone said "No," thus courting extreme unpopularity...
From the 40 names now listed seven Juniors and three Sophomores will be selected. A meeting of the newly-elected council will take place immediately, at which three additional Juniors and two Sophomores are to be picked to make up the quota for next year's council. The nominations from the respective classes are as follows...