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When the naturalization bar to Indians is lifted, J. J. Singh plans to take advantage of it himself. He will go back to India and re-enter as a quota...
...Guatemala, the Government shut off all newsprint to two papers. Reason: their quota was needed for an anti-illiteracy campaign...
Across the land, it was the same. Four San Antonio draft boards, with a May quota of 36, produced nine men. Instead of 79, Denver found four. Los Angeles, with a quota of 793, would deliver only 170; the whole state of California would draft only 300 instead...
...Bank in New York shows that under all the bluster, Buenos Aires must use American credits to finance its steel and bullets economy. Coupled with the loan request came a demand for greater American meat imports. The loan should be turned down, the meat imports curtailed beyond the present quota. Neither Kansas farmers nor Polish peasants (who will never get Argentine beef, spoiling while the Strong Man haggles over price) will object to these measures. To give these measures scope, the food concessions offered Argentina's satellite countries by Peron must be matched with make-do grants of consumers' goods...
Here & there the Old Vic proved disappointing. For a great repertory company, it had more than its quota of indifferent actors; there was no great distinction in their rendering of speech or verse. (The musicomedy-sized Century Theater made for hearing trouble.) But they had the main thing-a real Shakespearean robustiousness. In Part I they contrived a fine balance between the historical scenes and the humorous ones, a telling contrast between that arch-romantic and exemplar of heraldic honor, Hotspur, and that arch-realist and epitome of worldly wisdom, Falstaff. And they had for this two brilliant actors...