Word: quota
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...severely that Italy, one of the chief foreign suppliers, stood to lose more than half her U.S. sales, which in 1951 totaled about $420,000* Pointing out that Italy had done a good job of combating Communism, the President bravely overruled his commission. The decision to abolish the garlic quota, declared one State Department official, would breathe new life into the campaign for honest and unhampered trade between the U.S. and her allies...
...days after Cinemactress Elizabeth (Ivanhoe) Taylor, 20, returned to Hollywood from England, where she left her husband, British Cinemactor Michael Wilding, 39, awaiting his U.S. immigration quota number, Elizabeth informed her M-G-M studio bosses that she may not be able to star in the movie called The Girl Who Had Everything. Reason: she is expecting a baby next January...
...drop of 2,000 from the previous month. A total of 983,430 men have been called into the Army and Marines since the Korean fighting started. But the Marine Corps announced recently that it will once again rely on voluntary enlistments to fill its quota...
Warning of Disaster. Windy old Pat McCarran took the floor for what was practically a singlehanded oratorical fight against the critics. Their proposals, he thundered, would be "disastrous" to the U.S.: ". . . opening of the gates to a flood of Asiatics . . . destruction of the national-origins quota system . . . would, in the course of a generation or so, change the ethnic and cultural composition of this nation...
Gradually, the Chinese Communists have built it back. Anshan, the Communists admitted last week, fell below its 1951 steel quota-probably set at about 720,000 tons. But the rest of the triangle's mines, factories and machine shops, according to the Reds, reached their goals. The triangle is producing about 49% of all Red China's coal (Fushun's open bituminous pits are said to be the world's largest), 87% of its pig iron, 93% of its steel products, 78% of its electrical power...