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...think that a fair employment practices commission will uncover enough cases to prepare a foundation for effective legislation combating the quota system," Howell said...
Actually, compared with the living standard of other Germans, Josef's is a pampered lot. Besides receiving top rations, he can buy a lunch of vegetable soup with a little meat at the mine daily. If he fulfills his production quota, increased under a speedup bonus system introduced in January, Josef gets extra ration cards entitling him to buy a pound and a half of bacon, a pound of coffee, a half-pound of sugar, two bottles of schnapps and 100 cigarets, as well as some clothing and household goods. Other Germans in the Ruhr have not even been...
Applications may be filed at PBH next week by those wishing to give blood, with those accepted giving their pint on April 9, 10, or 11 from 12 to 6 o'clock. Men are also needed to solicit donors for the 300-pint quota, and anyone interested may sign up any day next week between 11 and 12 o'clock...
...another balky satellite to his growing sphere of influence. The pact was ostensibly signed in an aura of good will and mutual agreement, but actually was achieved through a complete strangulation of Bolivian economy. Dependent on Argentina for ninety percent of its wheat and sixty percent of its meat quota, the newly democratic government unwisely flaunted its independence in Peron's whiskers and speedily found that all rail lines leading to the frontier-had developed a sudden shortage of rolling stock. The Bolivian government held off to the point of bankruptey and then quietly succumbed to Peron's demand...
...newsmen-the Moscow housing shortage-gave U.S. Ambassador Walter Bedell Smith his opening. The U.S. would pare 16 men off its 100-man official delegation, he said, and thus make room for 16 more newsmen. At week's end, the Russians agreed. No. 35 on the new quota of 36: the correspondent of New York's Communist Daily Worker...