Word: quota
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cuba entered World War II, sent no troops overseas, supplied sugar to the U.S. and Allied forces. Its guaranteed quota of the U.S. sugar market remained in effect then...
...flattering version of U.S. civil defense: "They have shelters against atomic attack; we do not have even a miserable small hole in which to hide. Why not say these truths? Why not say that Cuba has participated in all the wars and when the wars were over its sugar quota was taken away?"* But Castro thought he knew how Figueres had gone wrong: he had been influenced by "a press campaign emanating from the monopoly of international news agencies...
Last week Castro said the purpose of his visit was to ask the American government to give Cuba economic assistance and to raise the quota on imports of Cuban sugar...
...mandatory oil quotas on imports, set for major refiners last week, squeezed some companies tight. Of the 136 companies put on quotas, those seriously restricted in their imports are Gulf Oil Corp., whose crude and unfinished oil quota was lopped 31.7%, Sinclair Refining Co. (29.6%), Tidewater Oil Co. (38.8%), Standard Oil Co. of Indiana (32.8%), Socony Mobil Oil Co., Inc. (40.4%) and Texas...
...national alumni phase" is the effort to secure $12 million in individual gifts of less than $10,000 from alumni. As of Feb. 28 it had raised 92.8 per cent of its quota, Pratt claimed...