Word: quotas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what extent did German differences reflect disputes between the occupying powers? Last week, when the U.S. failed to make good all of its food import quota, the Russians refused to continue food supplies for all sectors of Berlin. On the third anniversary of Dday, a scorching editorial in the Berlin Soviet mouthpiece Tägliche Rundschau asserted that U.S. and British airmen had sought out German cities for destruction during the war, neglected military targets. General Lucius D. Clay, U.S. commander in Germany, quietly commented: "I would not dignify that kind of charge with a formal protest." Convinced that...
...Association of American Railroads ordered Eastern and Western lines to deliver 1,600 cars a day to wheat-belt roads. That is well over the 1,200-a-day quota for last year, when wheat rotted on the ground. But there is no guarantee that the roads will get the 1,600, as all are short of cars. Car production is still low. Manufacturers delivered an estimated 4,000 new freight cars last month, about half of them boxcars. But every month the railroads, run flat-wheeled during the war, have been forced to retire more than 5,000 worn...
...with Britain paying half the bill) has provided about 330,000 tons of that amount each month. The rest was to come from German home production. U.S. supplies fell behind by about 130,000 tons, and German supplies last week were about 200,000 tons short of their quota. The German failure was partly due to the severe winter, which had destroyed stocks and disrupted communications, but chiefly to the breakdown of the Germans' own food collection and distribution system...
...never let its sympathy for Europe's 1,000,000 displaced persons interfere with its airtight immigration laws. At the first hint of a leak last summer, Mississippi's frog-voiced John Rankin had trumpeted the considered opinion of many another quota-conscious Congressman: "There are too many so-called refugees pouring into this country bringing with them communism, atheism, anarchy and infidelity." But last week a House Judiciary subcommittee gingerly got ready to hold hearings on a bill by Illinois' Congressman William G. Stratton, which would admit 400,000 D.P.s over the next four years...