Word: quota
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Applications may be filed at PBH next week by those wishing to give blood, with those accepted giving their pint on April 9, 10, or 11 from 12 to 6 o'clock. Men are also needed to solicit donors for the 300-pint quota, and anyone interested may sign up any day next week between 11 and 12 o'clock...
...another balky satellite to his growing sphere of influence. The pact was ostensibly signed in an aura of good will and mutual agreement, but actually was achieved through a complete strangulation of Bolivian economy. Dependent on Argentina for ninety percent of its wheat and sixty percent of its meat quota, the newly democratic government unwisely flaunted its independence in Peron's whiskers and speedily found that all rail lines leading to the frontier-had developed a sudden shortage of rolling stock. The Bolivian government held off to the point of bankruptey and then quietly succumbed to Peron's demand...
...newsmen-the Moscow housing shortage-gave U.S. Ambassador Walter Bedell Smith his opening. The U.S. would pare 16 men off its 100-man official delegation, he said, and thus make room for 16 more newsmen. At week's end, the Russians agreed. No. 35 on the new quota of 36: the correspondent of New York's Communist Daily Worker...
Late receipts boosted the food fund total to $11,245 last night as the drive pushed steadily toward its $25,000 quota...
Although the populous Houses, Yard halls, and graduate school dormitories are expected to bear the brunt of the drive, their donations alone cannot fill Harvard's high quota, and the campaign will stall unless every commuter and faculty member contributes his share. The fact that the meager contributions of commuters have not kept pace with the general enthusiasm is largely due to an unavoidable technical imperfection in the campaign. Unable to solicit donations by a door-to-door method, the committee relied on individual letters to bring in non-resident funds and has rammed up against the same problem that...