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...affairs, were cited as harmful to manufacturers. Excessive tariff concessions on woolens and worsteds, made at Geneva in 1948, were a factor in the 50 per cent decline of this segment of the industry. A partial compensation for this policy is an agreement with Japan to put a voluntary quota on cotton exports. "Our position," Harris stated, "was that the burden ... of solving the Japanese problems should not be put excessively on cotton textiles...
...Student Council appears to have recognized the failure of this year's drive ($7,200 or half the quota and a third of the 1951 total). The Council should now recognize the obvious merit of the PBH offer...
...keep young vandals from breaking the ceiling tiles. But more important than any of their projects is the enthusiasm the program has aroused. The students have requested so many scientific books from the University of Florida library that the university has had to put the school on a quota. One boy is working 25 hours a week after hours to earn enough money to build his own laboratory. Another boy got limited security clearance from the Air Research and Development Command so that he can work during the summer testing rocket fuels at the missile base...
...dustbowl refugees in The Grapes of Wrath, but she has incurred no literary debt. Hers is a book of little form, but the substance is fresh, and all the accidents, coincidences and rashes of sentimentality are not allowed to get too far beyond life's normal quota...
...immigration bill calling for the entry under parole of an estimated 67,000 refugees a year, a change in the quota-basing system to 1950 census figures that will raise quota immigrations from 155,000 to 220,000 a year, and a change in quota procedures that would allow southern European and Mediterranean nationals to utilize unused quotas for northern Europeans...