Word: quota
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first eight juniors to be honored with membership in the society comes the election of 32 Seniors, the first election taking in members of the Class of 1929 this fall. Twenty-five more Seniors will be made members of Phi Beta Kappa in the spring, but the full quota from the Junior Class will be chosen tonight. The basis of selection will be made purely on grades recorded in the deans' office...
There has been no phenomenal demand for seats to the Holy Cross game, and it is expected that undergraduate applications can all be filled up to the restriction quota of six seats...
...like many other Canadians cross the U. S. line every day to go to work. They were the laboratory specimens selected from among tens of thousands to test a ruling made last year by the Labor Department (TIME, May 2, 1927), putting foreign-born Canadian commuters under the quota...
...Batten company contributes to the combined concern are Armstrong Linoleum; Colgate products (including Rapid Shave Cream, Ribbon Dental Cream, Fab, Cashmere Bouquet Soap, Coleo Soap, Octagon Soap, Super Suds); Hamilton Watch, Walkover shoes, Edgeworth tobacco, McCallum hosiery, Prophylactic tooth brushes, United Fruit Co. bananas. From the Barton, Durstine-Osborne quota comes Alexander Hamilton correspondence school; Atwater Kent radios, Cluett Peabody Arrow Collars; Dorothy Gray toilet preparations; General Electric Co. products; General Motors (institutional-not the individual cars); Gillette razors; Oshkosh trunks; L. C. Smith and Corona typewriters; Triplex safety glass; Standard Oil Co. of New York...
Last week, in Washington, Post Office officials opened for the second time bids to supply the U. S. with 12,800,000,000 stamped envelopes, its quota for the next four years (TIME, Aug. 20, Sept. 17). Once before bids had been opened and rejected. This time figures were much lower. The Middle West Supply Co., now holding the contract, offered an estimate of $13,314.954-98. But the International Envelope Co., subsidiary of International Paper, underbid its rival by $105,161.18. International Envelope won the contract...