Word: quota
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have tumbled with unhappy results. Although the bank did not specify them, there are abundant examples to prove its point. The 11?-per-lb. drop in coffee prices in 1957 cost Colombia $25 million-more than its annual education budget. In 1958, when Russia dumped tin, Bolivia's quota was cut 31% by the International Tin Council; Bolivia lost $20 million, almost canceling...
Secretary Udall, who happens to be a friend of long standing, has asked me as a personal favor to him to solicit the Oil and Gas Industry in Washington in an effort to help the Secretary dispose of his "very sizable quota of tickets for the Jefferson-Jackson Dinner." Tickets are $100 per plate. Send your check...
...bird dropped. After six years of trying, the hunter had finally bagged his first Auerhahn-the plump European grouse (English name: capercaillie) so rare that it is verboten to shoot more than one in a lifetime, so elusive that only the most persistent hunter ever brings home his quota...
Last fall a government anti-speculation patrol visited Fedor and discovered why. For 25 years he had made each month some 50 pairs over his quota, peddled them on the side at premium prices. When he retired, he went into business on a big scale. He hired two workers, bought a stamping press (whose clang was drowned out by the nightly concerts). The police found hidden on his property 23 savings account books, gold and other valuables, discovered he owned two other houses, two motorcycles, two autos and a motorboat. Kuznetsov's total worth: some $200,000. His punishment...
...canceling of the Cuban sugar quota has produced a rush by farmers to grow sugar cane, and Florida hopes for a 20% rise in its sugar quota. Floridians support the nation's biggest dog-racing industry and train a big share of its trotting horses in such sun-drenched towns as Ocala, where Sofa Manufacturer Bernard Castro is a leading horse breeder...