Word: quotas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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World's End, Between Two Worlds and Dragon's Teeth have all been best-sellers in England, and the publisher, Werner Laurie, wrote me that he was using nearly all his quota of paper for them; he added that he had sold 5,000 copies of Dragon's Teeth in Glasgow, and that, knowing the citizens, he considered phenomenal. World's End has been out for a year in Sweden, and the publisher, Axel Holmstrom, has just airmailed me a bunch of clippings, all expressing delight with the book. My American publisher, Ben Huebsch, writes...
...Milwaukee man had hoarded 158 Ib. of coffee, his quota for a decade. Boston 'racketeers stole householders' food by posing as OPA inspectors come to check excess supplies...
State Agriculture Commissioners piled up the gloom. Samples: > New Hampshire: Production will be off generally 5% to 12% from 1942; the quota for potatoes was set at 40% over 1942, a year whose halcyon weather conditions will probably not be repeated this year...
...Colonial Secretary Oliver Stanley announced last week that the Government would allow 29,000 Bulgarian, Hungarian and Rumanian Jews to enter Palestine. His report was received in England with mixed rejoicing and fury. To demands that the quota be enlarged, Stanley replied: "Stability in the Middle East [i.e., the Arabs] must be considered." > A pamphlet, Let My People Go, by rapier-minded, humanitarian Victor Gollancz, offered evidence that most of Europe's Jews will soon be dead unless something is done. Golancz pointed out that promises of postwar retribution "do not save lives," suggested release and exchange of Jews...
Those last eight days contained a life time's quota of joy and despair. The despair came in the wilds of Utah, where he was stranded in sub-freezing weather clad only in a light suit, As he described it. "After walking for some time I became tired and, taking my pack off my back, I seated myself on it and rested, but. . . I quickly realized that I was starting to freeze to death and that if didn't start walking I would never see the dawn of another...