Word: quota
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With 140 per cent of its quota already collected, the Harvard Community Fund Campaign will continue its drive until Thursday following the example of the Greater Boston Fund...
Nevertheless, International's bright-eyed, nickel-grey-haired President Robert Crooks Stanley announced last month that Frood had begun open-pit mining. By last week, these new operations were fast approaching a fixed-quota yield of 4,000 tons of ore a day. This is low-grade ore, expensive to smelt. But open-pit mining is much cheaper than shaft mining and-more important to smart President Stanley and International's 90,000 stockholders-combination of the two methods will assure an average grade of ore for many a year, will put off the day when even Frood...
...businessmen. Somewhat to his own surprise he negotiated a private pact limiting imports from Japan to 255,000,000 yards for 1937 and 1938 (TIME, March 8, 1937). Last week, declaring the pact a great success, Dr. Murchison signed an extension providing a 100,000,000-yard annual quota for 1939 and 1940, thus guaranteeing Japanese textile men that they at least need not worry over U. S. reprisals for Japanese encroachments in China...
Growers of dark and burley tobacco, 240,000 strong, last week voted on AAA's proposal to impose compulsory marketing quotas on their crops for 1939. Result: 61.2% Yes for burley, 60.5% Yes for dark, both short of the two-thirds approval necessary for the quota. Since flue-cured tobacco growers and rice farmers turned down quotas last fortnight and cotton is the only major crop that has yet accepted one, for the next crop year AAA's score is one "victory," four "defeats." Result: an increase in the already flourishing crop of pre-Congress AAAttacks, AAAlibis (TIME...
...Radio Pictures, Ltd., by RKO Radio Pictures in the U. S. and British Film Producer Herbert Wilcox (Sixty Glorious Years, Victoria the Great). Objects: to enable Producer Wilcox to get his pictures distributed in the U. S., enable RKO Radio to borrow his actors and actresses and meet British quota requirements...