Word: quota
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last spring the grain collections from German farmers in the British and U.S. zones were only 32% of quota. The Russians, who know how to exact grain from Soviet collective farms, have used their time-tried techniques much more successfully. At the village of Mildensee, near Dessau, a lad of 16, so small that he looked only ten, told me: "The Russians take 80% of our food." His father interrupted: "No, no, they take only half or a little more...
Another Mildensee farmer said: "If a cow dies, I still have to deliver her quota of milk. We are fined if we do not. Four peasants in this village have been fined-but none have yet been put in jail. If you lack money to pay the fine, then you must pay in animals. In villages near Mildensee some peasants last year were jailed for up to six months for not meeting their grain delivery quotas in full. But we in Mildensee were able to meet our quotas. So they gave us bigger quotas this year. Now we have...
Cocoa is parceled out in the world markets by the International Emergency Food Council. Although the U.S. got its full allocation of 258,000 tons, plus a "dividend" of about 10,000 tons, the quota was still far short of the 350,000 tons that U.S. chocolate manufacturers would like to buy. Contributing to the high price of cocoa were three other factors: competitive bidding for a scarce commodity, hoarding by large manufacturers, and a grave miscalculation by speculators...
Menus, slashed by the omission of meat on Tuesdays and eggs and poultry on Thursdays, will offer fish and cheese dishes as substitutes. Fewer rolls and slices of bread will be served both in the dormitories and in Agassiz House cafeteria, which feeds a daily quota of 500 students at noon...
Watson said that the House Masters had been left to their own discretion in meeting or exceeding the quota. Some in the roomier Houses where commitments had already been made, were not making any changes in order to be fair to all of the men involved...