Word: quota
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Elite troopers are to be grouped in squads of five, each with a squad leader (as in Germany), and a quota of 30 new members which, when recruited, will comprise an entire squad. Squadsters will be dropped if they attend less than two Mosleyite meetings per week. Those who attend five or more a week may wear, while they keep up that average, the medal denoting "Highest Zeal...
...which of several fields of study they are most fitted for-which they are most interested in, and in which they will achieve the best results-, and if the new plan succeeds in assisting these, it will have justified its own creation. Moreover, the eighty per cent quota for each department, not to be exceeded except insofar as would not increase its annual expenses, may bring about savings in the Tutorial System that will obviate any radical alterations. Unquestionably savings will be made, since the single factor that in the past caused increasing outlays-appreciable changes in the number...
...increase in population, largely due to the attempts on the part of businessmen to write into the NRA codes measures favorable to their respective businesses, has also brought into the town its quota of shady characters--chiefly gamblers, and touts of all descriptions. The writer positively knows of one instance where a prominent scientist was accosted by a woman of shady occupation in front of the White House. Be this as it may, the District is still very clean, compared to its sister cities...
Philippine sugar producers filled their 1934 quota early last summer. The Puerto Rican and Hawaiian quotas were completed in November. But Cuba, noted in the trade as a patient holder, still had several hundred thousand tons of its quota left as late as September. The Cubans had begun to foresee that as soon as the quotas of other producers were exhausted, they would be in control of the U. S. raw sugar market until the 1935 quotas came into effect Jan. 1. Accordingly, in early October, they signed a three-month agreement with U. S. refiners. The agreement: 1) Cuban...
...record forms an integral part of this system of admission. In this way the requisite factual information is assured. As a standard of judging preparatory schools the success of their graduates at college rather than on the entrance examinations is stressed. College study demands not so much a definite quota of facts-the variety of subjects accepted for entrance proves this but for that "ability to think," which is identical with the "ability to learn," in any but the most parrot-like sense. It is in this latter sense indeed, that it is encouraged by the present system of entrance...