Word: quota
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) reported last week that trade totals for the last six months of 1954 were almost 30% higher than they were in 1950. But two bad practices impede an even greater prosperity, said GATT. Nonindustrial countries (in Asia and Latin America) maintain tariff and quota walls to protect infant manufacturing industries which are in many cases uneconomic. Industrial nations (Western Europe and the U.S.) continue to protect their farmers against imported farm products that are produced more cheaply elsewhere...
...been granted. Administrator McLeod confidently predicts that a total of some 160,000 visas will be issued. In Germany and Austria, more than 3,000 visas are now being granted monthly. In Italy, U.S. consular officials are issuing 124 visas every working day, enough to fill Italy's quota two months ahead of the act's deadline...
...Washington, the Defense Department announced that, having completed two correspondence courses in 1953 and successfully made his point quota, Vice President Richard M. Nixon had been promoted to the rank of commander in the Naval Reserve...
Intriguing Musk. Stirring the nightly quota of martinis, Tom tells Betsy that he is going to try for a public-relations job with United Broadcasting Corp. As he hurdles tricky interviews in the company's Rockefeller Center headquarters, Tom feels that even the brass-colored elevators carry the intriguing musk of big money. The scent is headiest around U.B.C.'s self-effacing but all-powerful $200,000-a-year president, Ralph Hopkins. It is to Hopkins that Tom is assigned as unofficial braintruster, ghostwriter and aide...
...recent whirlwind tour to visit Budweiser wholesalers around the U.S., Busch bet every man he met a brand-new hat-900 in all-that he could not top his local sales quota for the year. So far, the challenge seems to be paying off. For May and June, Budweiser's wholesalers jumped their sales 5% over 1954 levels. Says Anheuser-Busch's President Gus Busch: "By the end of the year, I'll either have a houseful of hats or I'll be the biggest hat buyer in the country...