Word: quota
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last seven years France has signed an annual trade treaty with Russia's satellite, Czechoslovakia, exchanging phosphates and machinery for pottery, wood pulp and coal-tar products. The pacts have not worked out well. In 1951 the Czechs and French exchanged only 60% of the agreed quota, and last year the figure was down...
RATOONS (248 pp.) - Daphne Rooke - Houghfon Mifflin ($2); Ballantine Books (35?) For a country with about as many English-speaking people as North Carolina, South Africa exports a high quota of readable novels. The latest on this fall's list is Daphne Rooke's Ratoons. Novelist Rooke (Mittee) takes in the conflict of Zulu against Hindu, Englishman against Boer on a turn-of-the-century sugar plantation, but the drama of racial tensions serves mainly as a backdrop for a melodrama of personal relationships...
Milton Engel '56, of Eliot, and M. Mark Klein'56, of Leverett, co-chairmen of the drive, announced last night that this year's quota will be 2,500 delivered pints. Harvard set the national record last year with 2,300 contributions out of over 3,000 pledges...
...ballots are initially distributed according to first choices marked on them. When a candidate has received more first place votes than he needs for his electing quota, his surplus is redistributed according to the second choices marked on the ballots...
...offer to accept all East German refugees, quota-free...