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...prewar days, production and sales stayed in balance, because a car was not usually made until a dealer ordered it. In the early postwar years, when factories could not meet demand, cars were allocated to dealers on a quota basis. Until a few months ago, a dealer still had to take his quota, whether or not he could sell all the cars, or face loss of his franchise. Automakers have belatedly realized that the quota system often forced a dealer to bootleg cars to stay in business, have now relaxed it. Manufacturers have also finally realized that the chief source...
More than half of wheat exports move under the International Wheat Agreement. But with importers waiting for more price cuts, the U.S. has not even filled half this year's I.W.A. quota of 210 million bushels...
...brought in so far that month. If she knows, she gets a free appliance (electric coffeemaker, toaster, broiler, etc.). So far, 17 wives have been called, and every one has had the answer, to the penny. One proudly reported that her husband had passed his month's quota in only eight days. Overall results: Clary's dollar sales in May were up 22% over April, 13% over the year's average to date...
...month she gets. When their honeymoon was only two days old, Anita testified, teetering Tommy lugged out photographs of all his ex-wives and old flames and hung them all about the house. "I said to him, 'Tommy, you've had more than your usual quota of gin this morning.' " That got Tommy's dander up. "He got his gun and threatened to kill me." In the witness chair, Manville was asked if it was true that he had proposed to Anita's twin sister, Juanita Patino, ex-wife of Bolivia's tin tycoon...
...about as a result of the government's four-way prescription: 1) tax reductions (made possible, in part, by stepped-up U.S. aid in the Indo-China war); 2) a freer money policy; 3) relaxed rent controls and a special payroll tax to help building; 4) lifting of quota restrictions on a number of imports...