Word: quota
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was one curious literary note that Mao Tun failed to mention. In 1958, the year of the great economic leap, the Writers and Artists Union announced plans for a literary leap as well. Mao Tun, like others, was assigned his quota: one long novel, two of medium length. As everybody in the audience knew, Mao Tun has produced no novel since. In fact, the pen of China's most important living novelist has been curiously still ever since Communism took over...
Outmoded Words. Against so clear a danger to the security of the hemisphere from Cuba-based and Communist-in spired infiltration, the U.S. and other Latin American states must take steps. But what steps? Cancellation of Cuba's sugar quota was probably a violation of the article in the charter of the Organization of American States that bars economic intervention; it may also prove ineffectual. Russia has promised to purchase the entire quota cut at only $24 million less than the artificially high price the U.S. used to pay. Communist China has promised to buy 500,000 tons more...
...sink of. Dinger Bell is the narrator-hero of an autobiographical novel by an Englishman who himself became an "apprentice" soldier at 14. As he remembers it, "the junior intake" at Hurlingford is possibly the most pathetic body of British men-at-arms since Justice Shallow filled his draft quota with village idiots, misfits and no-hopers...
...punishing Fidel Castro by canceling the rest of Cuba's 1960 U.S. sugar quota, the U.S. at first seemed in the embarrassing position of giving a windfall to Dominican Republic Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. Under the law, Cuba's canceled quota was to be split among other traditional foreign suppliers to the U.S. Trujillo's normal 111,157-ton share of the U.S. market promised to grow by more than 200%, giving an extra $29 million to the Dominican sugar industry, which Trujillo virtually owns. Last week the U.S. found a way to cancel Trujillo...
...Both nations were overjoyed at the prospect but did not want to say so aloud, since many of their workers and peasants still consider Castro a bearded Robin Hood, boldly defying the U.S. Mexico's official rationalization is that Mexico, after all, began asking for an increased sugar quota long before the Cuba-U.S. crisis began...