Word: quota
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Agriculture Department last week estimated that the U.S. will require 200,000 tons more than last year's 9,400,000 tons. It immediately assigned 140,000 tons of that amount to quota nations (the other 60,000 tons would ordinarily be Cuba's share). Thus the U.S. 'must find 760,000 extra tons of sugar before year...
...Windfalls. U.S. growers may provide an extra 200,000 tons as their share of the divvy. Quota nations other than Cuba will also get increases. They may range from 7,000 tons for such small quota countries as Costa Rica and Haiti to nearly 80,000 tons for the Philippines. Mexico. Peru and the Dominican Republic will get windfalls. The Mexicans now hope to provide up to 200,000 tons v. their present 65,000. The Dominican Republic, where Dictator Trujillo controls the sugar industry, expects a windfall of about 200,000 tons, and Panama will increase its quota from...
...Once the quota nations have had their share, the U.S. can make up any remaining sugar deficit by buying from such nonquota nations as Brazil, which is ready to sell up to 300,000 tons of surplus sugar this year, and Australia, which has more than 200,000 tons available. For sugar bought from nonquota nations, the U.S. will also pay its higher quota price...
Permanent Cut. Cuba will lose $65 million on the sugar slash this year, plus another $25 million for extra allotments that would have been due her. Congress is expected to revamp the entire Sugar Act when it returns in August, may cut Cuba out of the quota system permanently. In any case, after allotting additional quotas to friendly nations and to U.S. farmers, the U.S. will not lightly return them to Cuba. U.S. beet farmers particularly stand to benefit by the cut. Their costs have long been above foreign producers' (the quota system is partly to protect them from...
...simply as a firm mold for flashing pools of moving truth. While reams of well-wrought verse make do with themes that could as easily serve historians, sociologists, geologists or psychoanalysts, he seldom tackles anything less easy than a challenge to poetic insight. Like all poets he has his quota of failures, but even there his sense of language, when it cannot save his intentions, still saves his music...