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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Seated Mississippi's John C. Stennis, elected three weeks ago to fill the unexpired term of the late Theodore G. Bilbo. Thus, for the first time this year, the Senate had its full quota of 96 members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Congress' Week, Dec. 1, 1947 | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

...blood drive, completed last Tuesday, reached within 14 pints of its 200 pint quota. Jay Fialkow '48, PBH vice-president, declared the drive successful, pointing out that the 186 pints received from students earlier this week topped last year's quota by a considerable amount...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Poor Eat Turkey; Blood Drive Ends | 11/28/1947 | See Source »

Based on an obscure ruling that permits Colleges to place a five percent quota of non-veterans in its housing projects, the University dictum violates the entire purpose of Federal low-cost housing. In an inflationary period the 198 Cambridge and Boston units assigned Harvard represent a large percentage of the total number of apartments available to veterans living on their government allotments. The great majority of married veterans cannot compete for apartments on any but the lowest rent scale and Federal housing was designed to place decent living quarters within reach of their meager income. It seems grossly unfair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Plot Sickens | 11/20/1947 | See Source »

...started when the Government decided on this year's quota of grain for export: 570 million bushels, 100 million more than it could readily get. As the Government bought on the open market, prices rose. Many livestock raisers, rather than pay such high prices for feed, sent their animals to market and cashed in on high meat prices. Thus at twelve leading Western markets, hog receipts one day last week totaled 114,800, as compared with 67,987 on the same date a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMODITIES: Freedom at Work | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

...hundred pints is the quota for the current drive, but since a large number of volunteers fall to show up for their appointments, it will be necessary to sign up at least 300 men before donations actually begin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBH Seeks 300 Blood Donors In Post-Yale Game Campaign | 11/14/1947 | See Source »

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