Word: quota
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet Union enjoys a more enviable lot than the men and women who break sports records. They are pampered and idolized, and, considering their perquisites, they are amateurs only by courtesy. How they behaved outside the stadiums hardly mattered so long as they continued to chalk up a satisfactory quota of victories inside. But last week, as the European championship track and field meet was about to start in Stockholm, Russia's favored athletes found themselves in an unfamiliar kind of trouble...
Lobo has already made profits enough this year to satisfy most men. A severe drought in Puerto Rico and a 126-day strike that paralyzed Hawaii's sugar industry prevented both from meeting sugar quotas to the U.S. To make up the shortage, Cuba's sugar quota was boosted three times in five weeks, all of which was money in the bank for Lobo. In no time, he dispatched a Lobo-chartered ship, the largest ever to carry sugar out of Cuba, to the U.S. West Coast with 19,000 tons...
...increases its commitment (now $2.8 billion) to the fund, other nations with strong economic positions, such as Canada and West Germany, will also have to follow suit. West Germany still has the original fund quota of $330 million, which was fixed before the country's astonishing industrial recovery. With $5.5 billion in accumulated foreign exchange and gold reserves, Bonn could well afford to double its quota in the fund. Since the German mark is as sound as the dollar, an increase in the German quota would greatly reduce pressure on the fund's U.S. dollars. The U.S. also...
...away from big rewards alone because they can be given to only a few, are won again and again by the same crack salesmen. Instead, they hand out smaller prizes that give everyone a chance. National Cash Register has a series of trips based on points in sales quotas. Last year 1,200 of its 3,500-man force got a free trip (with their wives), plus $25 for each point over the quota. Rich's department store in Atlanta offers monthly bonuses to all its salespeople for topping their set quotas, once or twice a year holds...
...even gallows' humor wore thin as the Germans developed their policy of divide and kill. The leaders of the Jewish community were conscripted into a council and forced to help doom their own people. They had to deliver a certain quota of slave laborers, and so it was agents of the council itself who fingered the victims. Another council-the Thirteen-came into being. Its job was to tie off the last artery of hope, the flow of smuggled goods from somewhere outside hell. The Thirteen hoped to buy time from the Nazis, and many a Jew hoped...