Word: quotas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What was going-on? Who gave a civilian permission to carry a gun? The man explained that he was an official of the local hsien (county government). He was bringing three army conscripts to fill the hsien's quota...
...Zealand put up a strong case for a bigger Fund quota, because she has the highest per capita world trade of any country in the world and it is subject to big fluctuations. But Finance Minister Walter Nash announced that in spite of the fact that his plea was rejected he was going back to New Zealand and fight for ratification of the Fund agreement...
...Fund is a plan to stabilize the ratio be tween the currencies of 44 nations (Denmark was not assigned a quota), in an endeavor to protect the 1,500,000,000 people of those nations against slumps caused by a temporary shortage of foreign exchange. The Bank would make available, under most careful safeguards, a great pool of money for the reconstruction or physical improvement of war-damaged or backward areas. For detailed de scription of the two proposed institutions, see below...
Each nation will subscribe stock in the Bank in the same amount that it gets a quota in the Fund (chief exceptions: the U.S., China and Canada subscribe 10% to 15% more; the Latin American re publics, 30% less). But actually only 20% of the capital will be paid in and only 2% of it will be in gold. (The U.S., with a subscription of $3,175 million, will originally put up only $63.5 million in gold and $571.5 millions in dollar deposits.) This amount may be used for direct loans and participations...
Besides a bigger quota, the Russians were reported to be interested in a high gold value for the ruble...