Word: quotas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Finnish cities almost at will. Military experts estimate that it will take only 500 planes to give the Finns equality in the air, and about 250 had been allotted by the Allies up to last week-although not all of these had been delivered. Whether the rest of the quota had been promised by other countries, or whether the Allies had upped their allotment, Sir Walter did not make clear...
Half School Quota...
...contribution of $29,277.03 credited directly to the Harvard unit was equal to more than half of the quota assigned to forty-one educational institutions, including the University, comprising the School and College Group of Greater Boston...
...London, Rumania's Minister, Dr. Viorel Virgil Tilea, called on Lord Halifax at the Foreign Office to try to answer two searching British questions: 1) Was Rumania planning to increase the oil quota for Germany which Britain thought reasonable when, with France, she guaranteed Rumania's borders? 2) If so, was Rumania planning to force oil companies financed by Allied money to provide this added supply...
...keep the Allies (whose nationals, together with Belgian, Netherlands and U. S. capital, own 80% of Rumania's oil production) pacified while this is going on. Sir Reginald Hoare, British Minister at Bucharest, applied Allied pressure, warning Professor Netta et al. with grim politeness that Germany's quota of Rumanian oil must on no account be increased, least of all out of wells developed by Allied money. Professor Netta et al. replied that Germany's quota would not be increased, but the decline in Rumania's oil production must be stopped and reversed...