Word: quota
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Ford's daily quota of 5,000 automobiles is all but reached the whistle blows, the music slurs downward as wheels stop spinning. A worker shakes his head unhappily as he reads a sign: PRODUCTION TODAY, 5,000; COMPLETED, 4,999. When everyone has gone the "V 8" insignia on a Ford hood becomes an imp resembling a male Betty Boop who summons the Ford parts to assemble themselves. The accompaniment gaily plays snatches from Chopin's Polonaise Militaire, Beethoven's Ruins of Athens, Mendelssohn's Spring Song. The connecting rods do an authentic square...
...This wavelet of prosperity was not specifically started by the copper code which President Roosevelt signed last April, but the code has effectively consolidated the industry's gains. Its chief provisions were: 1) a sales agency to act as a clearing house for domestic sales; 2) monthly sales quotas of 20,500 tons of virgin copper, 9,500 tons of scrap. The Secretary of the Code Authority, Ralph R. Eckert, was appointed Sales Clearing Agent, whose prime function is to keep sales within the quota. Producers must file with him a copy of all sales and the price...
...communist zealots as over-production is a spectre to the American capitalist. The extremes and contrasts that are always a part of Russia extend even more sharply as the country seeks rebirth and who find workers whose absorbing life interest is simply to exceed the production quota, who write down their thoughts in note-books and yet who cat "cabbage soup from rusty cans...
Candidates for scholarship may receive application blanks from the Institution at 1001 15th Street, Washington. A faculty selection committee at each American college and University will nominate next fall the respective educational institution's quota of candidates for the scholarships next fall...
...they know absolutely that the overwhelming sentiment in their respective communities approves the stand taken. The same elements which initiated this movement in California have sought also to induce the President's Cabinet Committee of three, appointed to investigate such subjects, to recommend to Congress favorable action on quota for Japan. The statement of facts authenticated by the record, which was presented by the California Joint Immigration Committee, furnishes a complete answer and serves as justification for the stand taken by the Pacific States' Delegations. TIME...