Word: quotas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exception was Cuba. To prop up her sugar cane industry, Cuba asked for $50,000,000, settled for $11,200,000 and an upped sugar quota. When the sugar beet growers in the U. S. heard about the deal and their reduced 1941 quota (16% below 1940), they roared, charged the New Deal with wanting to kill the industry, quoted Secretary Ickes* to prove...
Plans for the annual exodus of Harvard delegates to the American Youth Congress in Washington are in full swing, and thirty-five of a quota of seventy men have already been recruited for the trip this week...
...Student Union and Liberal Executives are planning talks in the Freshman Union and Commuter's Center to promote further enlistments to fill out the quota. The entire group will set our from Harvard a five o'clock Friday afternoon...
...previous experience is necessary, according to William W. Tyng '41, chairman of the Network, who guarantees "to turn out our full quota of Raymond Gram Swings, Edisons, and Marconis, if we get intelligent candidates." Commenting on the intensive radio training provided by the four week competitions, Tyng said, "Many of us expect to land jobs through our Network experience...
...Senate's age average dropped, with oldsters being replaced by such men as Senator-Bishop Bunker and Senator-Newshawk Joseph Ball of Minnesota (35) its Mormon quota had gone up. Already sitting were Saints William H. King and D.Thomas of Utah. Lame Duck King will be replaced Jan. 3 by chubby Saint Abe Murdock. One indirect Mormon loss: the passing from politics of Mormon-admiring Henry F. Ashurst of Arizona...