Word: quota
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...take care of the large number of students who have applied for the Civil Aeronautics Authority's Pilot Training Program here, the University expects an increase of about 30 men in the course's enrollment quota, it was announced yesterday...
...think we have a good chance of obtaining the increase in the quota because many of the smaller colleges have been unable to fill their courses," Bollay added...
Beford World War II broke, the number of army aumƦniers was increased to 600. The navy quota remained the same; the air force got 30. Catholic aumônier general (chaplain general), commanding 500-odd Catholic aumƦniers, is Monsignor Maurice Sudour, Archdeacon of St. Denis, who gets a general's pay, wears a general's star. Ordinary chaplains have no rank, but a captain's pay, wear religious garb behind the lines, khaki at the front. By special dispensation from Rome, all Catholic aumƦniers and other front-line priests may hear...
Tobacco's bad year followed a good year. Last December, when tobacco growers were called to a crop-control referendum, they had just finished disposing of a big (800-million-pound) crop at the satisfying average price of 22? per pound. They sneered at the compulsory quotas Henry Wallace wanted them to vote and proceeded to plant a far greater acreage this year than quota allotments would have permitted. Fine weather favored the growing, and up sprouted 1,014,000,000 pounds of fat tobacco, 200 million pounds more than a maximum year's consumption...
...said crafty Henry Wallace, none of this would be done unless farmers vote for a compulsory quota (660,000,000 pounds) in the October 5 referendum...