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...Zevin's real break was paper rationing. His paper quota was high (10,-500,000 lbs. a year) and his big premium business had melted away. This left him enough paper to expand. While most publishers were curtailing their output of titles, Ben Zevin expanded, picking up best-sellers as other publishers were forced to drop them. One bit of trade gossip: World published Gypsy Rose Lee's G-String Murder on paper alloted for Bibles. This year World sold 13,000,000 volumes, grossed $6,350,000 to become one of the nation's biggest reprint...
...evidence, OPA haled into court Philadelphia's Chandler Laboratories (ice cream mixes, fruit flavors, etc.). Chandler has an annual quota of 23,396 Ibs. of sugar. Yet, charged OPA. it made a deal with four Louisiana sugar refineries (Vermillion Sugar, Abbeville; Erath Sugar, Erath; Ruth Sugars, St. Martinville; D. Moresi's Sons, Jeanerette) to get cane syrup equal to some 40,000,000 Ibs. of sugar, enough to supply U.S. consumers for two weeks...
Bends will be sold at the entrances of the four House dining halls. In addition, a room-to-room canvass will be conducted in November. Series E bonds bought up to and including December 31 will be counted in the current drive quota...
After granting these favors, General MacArthur set up a quota system which would please his public relations chief, Brigadier General LeGrande A. Diller, who has a theory that "there are far too many newspapermen over here...
Carnegie, 1945, included a high quota of businessmen in smocks-artists who paint merely pleasant pictures merely for the market-but it also showed what the country's best painters were up to. Very few seemed content to imitate the European "masters" or to ride the rickety bandwagons of faddist art. Even fewer were producing stuff worth imitating. Their most successful efforts had neither the excitement of Paris art, nor the significance of Mexico's Government-sponsored murals; but they did show a groping sincerity, a heartening attempt to be themselves...