Word: quotas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Frank Poor, later joined by his brothers Ed and Walter. Once high in the field of 10-watt bulbs for electric displays, they found after World War I that General Electric's patents were law-proof, settled down to make bulbs under G. E. license, on a production quota of 2% of G. E.'s own. Pushing like a radish sprout under a rock, the Poor Brothers merged with other small licensees, ran their quota up to 10%, became No. 3 lamp maker (after G. E. & Westinghouse...
French Without Tears (Paramount) is based on Terence Rattigan's romantic farce about an attractive flirt (Ellen Drew), who runs amorously amok in a French school for future British diplomats. One of the pictures which under the present quota arrangements Paramount must make every year in England, French Without Tears has not been very vigorously exploited in the U. S.-as if the studio were a little ashamed of it. There is nothing to be ashamed of. It rattles pleasantly enough down its well-worn groove, lubricated by a flow of bright quips and excellent performances by Roland Culver...
...gorges of the Danube broke up last fortnight and floated down toward the Black Sea. Last week upriver traffic started, and among the first to move were 30 barges carrying 18,000 tons of Rumanian oil to Germany-about one-seventh of that blockaded country's monthly oil quota from Europe's prime economic battleground...
...Congregational and Methodist Episcopal Churches started a fund to build a hospital for New Orleans' 130,000 Negroes. Cotton Merchant Edgar Bloom Stern, son-in-law of Julius Rosenwald, boomed up a campaign for more money. In a town where only two charity campaigns had reached their quota in 15 years, Mr. Stern got $200,000 from white citizens, $50,000 from Negroes...
...industry had raised $600,000 of an allotted $1,000,000 quota; U. S. labor had given...