Search Details

Word: quota (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Only once did he break his quota, in 1937 when rising prices forced him to hike it $200,000 to keep his unit production constant. Even so, he turned down at least $150,000 worth of business that year. But never has he turned down so much business as lately-$300,000 worth in one month-for something has happened to the furniture industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Not War | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

More than 40 students will have had flying instruction by the end of the week, according to William Bollay, instructor in Aerodynamics. Thirty additional men will be able to take advantage of the added quota sent last Saturday from Washington and will have their first flying experience within two weeks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First of Over 70 Students Take to Air As Government Flying Lessons Begin | 11/28/1939 | See Source »

Bollay announced that over thirty other flying students will begin air work in "about three weeks," owing to the fact that Washington officials have raised the University quota from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROSPECTIVE FLYERS WILL INSPECT AIRPLANES TODAY | 11/24/1939 | See Source »

...dictated their permanent appointment on the grounds of "commitment." Obviously the spirit of the Faculty resolution goes leagues beyond this concept. The Faculty was training its sights on flexibility: on the use of frozen associate professorships to corral capable men whose appointments come up at times when the ordinary quota would require that they be sent packing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TALKING TURKEY | 11/23/1939 | See Source »

...reply has been received yet to last week's request for an increase in the enrollment quota, Bollay said, but he feels that the chances for the addition of about 40 more men are very good. At present there are 80 men left out of the 185 original applicants...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOVERNMENT APPROVAL SENDS PILOTS INTO AIR | 10/31/1939 | See Source »

| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Next