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Peasants are forced to give up a fixed quota of their crops even if the harvest is bad and they have not enough left for themselves; recently, peasants in the Banat burned their crops in protest against the system. A recent visitor described Bucharest as a "city with the air of a pawnshop." The only way the Rumanian middle class can keep alive is by slowly selling its possessions. The few men who still run their businesses actually hope for nationalization. New laws covering "economic sabotage" may land a businessman in jail for carrying out any simple deal...
...industry, the Board of Trade set up a $20 million fund to lend to distribution companies and independent producers at low interest rates. The board hopes to step up film production enough so that British theaters can show British movies 45% of the time, thus meet the new quota regulations against U.S. films. Hod Royalty. With building trade wages at a record high, bricklayers in New York were up to $3.20 an hour, the Department of Labor reported. The national average for such work is $2.67, compared with $2.10 for all construction work...
...Quota: From 200,000 to 225,000 men the first year (depending on the number of volunteer enlistments) out of a pool of 7,500,000 19-to-25-year-olds...
...Quota. Under a new law, effective last week, touring U.S. citizens may bring into the U.S. $400 worth of goods duty free, providing they have been out of the U.S. at least twelve days. The old limit...
High Gear. In the first quarter of 1948, the British automobile industry nosed out the U.S. as the world's largest exporter of passenger cars. The three-month score: Great Britain, 56,812; the U.S., 55,444. (During March, Britain's carmakers, whose export quota is 75% of total production, edged this up to 78%.) Most U.S. motormakers, selling all they can make at home, have not tried to push exports...