Word: quotas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Franklin Roosevelt lobbed the weekly quota of hopeful political questions back high and easy, like a bull pen catcher on a hot afternoon. Then Elizabeth May Craig of Maine newspapers, famed among correspondents for her unabashed demeanor at Presidential press conferences, fogged one over in her come-out-and-fight soprano: "Mr. President, would you care to say whether you think Governor Dewey would make a strong opponent...
...Quotas. How much the various nations will subscribe to the capital of the Fund and the bank is important, since a nation's voting power will be roughly proportioned to its quota. France and Russia wanted bigger quotas than they were expected to get-but the statisticians had not yet figured out what the table of quotas would...
...least two French wives or mistresses became snipers-although most of the women snipers were Germans (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS). Some of the conscripted labor was French but much more was German, Italian and Russian. In one town, Bayeux, the German commandant managed to avoid sending the full quota of young men away to labor battalions and the people were grateful for that. The conscription rate for cattle was one cow per herd per month, which was not considered exorbitant...
...shelter a group, an industry or a class from competition in the world market has resulted in reprisals. One "planned economy" has begotten another, and country after country has at least partially seceded from the natural world division of labor. The result is the present world anarchy of tariffs, quota systems, prohibition of immigration, subsidized dumping of goods, competitive currency devaluation, armament races. For the parlous state of humanity Mises is inclined to blame the West as well as Germany. After all, he says, state interventionism in the economic process began in France and England...
...years the British quota system has forced U.S. movie makers to produce a certain percentage of pictures in England. Goetz cracked the practice of grinding out cheap "quota quickies" (which often lost money), proved that it was cheaper to make pictures good enough for the U.S. market. This worked so well that a year ago last March M.G.M. merged with Korda's London Films, Ltd., mapped out a program of big-budget pictures. Eventually, M.G.M. London under Korda and Goetz will turn out 16 of them yearly -a figure without precedent in England. Last week Ben Goetz...