Word: quota
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...experts also favor the extension of the quota system now in force to the countries of the Western Hemisphere. The necessity of increasing the border patrols for the exclusion of aliens who at present are being smuggled into the United States in large numbers was also stressed...
Meanwhile the cabinet, just 24 hours before Conservative Baldwin was scheduled to do the same thing, suddenly came out with a scheme for "guaranteed food purchases from the Dominions through British quota boards." Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden was credited with thus smartly stealing the enemy's thunder. But nobody seemed to think that even "Phil" himself wholeheartedly approves of this merely expedient scheme...
...from them without embarking on a tariff policy to which so many Laborites are opposed -but in London last week several Dominion representatives called the Snowden scheme a "quack panacea," expressed the belief that it envisions a form of interference with the laws of supply and demand by "meddling quota boards" so complex as to be unworkable...
...embarrassed or ill at ease in the presence of those in evening dress? In that case, his dissatisfaction is perfectly understandable. Whether the columnist has shown bad taste or lack of knowledge, I do not presume to decide, but I know that in his attempt to fill up his quota of the two columns, he has not spoken for everyone in the University. Robert G. Melendy...
...chief problem strikes at the very purpose of the cartel: fixation of production schedules. The rules provide for an elaborate system of fines for overproduction. Regularly has Germany overproduced, had its quota raised. Now a new complication is brought on by the fact that German production has recently slumped more than France's, angering Germany...