Word: quota
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Have You Brought Buns?" Systematically, the Communists are destroying Shanghai's business class. Their chief instrument is the forced government loan. A quota is assigned to each category of industry or business, and the businessmen belonging to each group are ordered to attend a meeting at which they are addressed by Communist Party organizers. Sometimes the Communists open the meeting with the remark: "Have you brought buns? This may take some time." Speaking in relays, the Communists harangue the meeting until the bonds are bought...
...after two years of racing, he had won the triple crown, $865,150 for Owner Warren Wright, and ranking with Man o' War. For most of last year, when he should have been at his racing prime, four-year-old Citation did nothing much but munch his daily quota of oats and hay. He went back to work last fall and by January, at Santa Anita, Trainer Jimmy Jones had him ready again. He won an easy one, then finished second in five successive handicaps in which he carried top weight. Though each of the defeats was a near...
...until a few months ago did the Army yield to the committee's arguments, begin mixing its Negroes into white units. Army jobs and schools were opened without restrictions. Finally, just two months ago, it lifted the 10% quota on Negro enlistments...
Poodles & Poker. Roosevelt in Retrospect nonetheless has Gunther's reader-tested qualities of liveliness and high quota of anecdote. Example: F.D.R. was economical. As a young man he disliked paying more than $2 for a shirt, and in the White House he charged Mrs. Harry Hopkins 50? a day for the keep of her poodle. Gunther names the only man who ever called F.D.R. an s.o.b. to his face: Leon Henderson. Myrna Loy was the President's favorite actress, and he loved poker. He saved and filed Christmas cards and he kept the bullet fired...
...Germans have two good reasons for submitting their production to the new bi-national authority. For one thing, the present quota which is severely limiting their steel production would be steadily relaxed. In addition, the new agreement would virtually nullify the French-Saar pact which has caused so much resentment in Germany...