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...Soviet industry is lagging. Pig-iron prouction for 1954 was less than the planned figure, and rolled steel is in short supply. Production is below quota in all other metals, in oil, coal and timber...
Such a program would be subject to strict quotas established by the President on recommendation of the Secretary of Defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The quota set for the first year is 100,000. While in training program, trainees will get $30 a month...
...statement further reveals that the state quota has been exceeded by many millions of poods in wheat, rye, cereals, feed crops, corn, potatoes, and vegetables...
...Raissa Berkman married Browder in Moscow in 1926, entered the U.S. from Canada in 1933, waged a four-year fight to avoid deportation on grounds of illegal entry. In a politically unpopular decision, the Board of Immigration Appeals permitted her to leave the country and re-enter as a quota immigrant in 1944. She was later barred from naturalization, at the time of her death was again subject to deportation and, with her husband, under perjury indictment on charges of falsely denying Communist Party membership...
...their share of the trade by ingenious bartering agreements signed with eleven countries. No hard and fast commitment, each bilateral trade agreement simply budgets an equal two-way trade for a year, usually with an arrangement for "swing" credit if either of the contracting nations fails to fill its quota. Bartering is a step away from free trade, which German Minister of Economy Ludwig Erhard ardently urges. But he goes along with it because, by skirting present currency shortages and exchange difficulties, it works...