Word: quota
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...began to drop in the B-29 outfits. January losses were nearly 6%. Compared with losses at the most grueling period of the European bombardment, this percentage was not high. But it did mean that a man could expect to average 17 missions before he was killed-and no quota of missions had been set.* Furthermore, pilots and their crews, bombing mostly through heavy clouds did not know whether they were hitting anything or not. "I believe it is worthwhile," said one pilot, "because I've got to believe...
Shunning the high-cost variety programs which are standard diet on other networks, ABC instead plans to give listeners a full quota of news, sports events and music; it will also feature special events and public service programs. Already in the works is a special V-J day setup that Versluis boasts will "beat the brains" out of his rival networks...
...rate. Nobody would object, he found, to more big-name performers, especially if they looked like Marlene Dietrich. Determined to satisfy his audience, Abe went to work on Broadway and Hollywood. By V-E day, when the Army gave him a solid green light for transportation, he had his quota of stars and garters. Ready for action were smash-hit shows, top-bill specialty acts, operatic and concert stars, any and every other kind of talent...
Perpetual Gloom. The first target was an arms factory at Takahagi. Then, in quick succession as the battleships (with cruisers closer inshore adding their quota) headed south at better than 20 knots, came engineering works at Hitachi, a copper refinery at Shibauchi and a complex of munitions plants and steel mills at Mito...
Though Secretary Anderson can no longer count on increasing the supply of meat, he does hope for a better distribution of what is available. To help effect this, he: 1) abolished present quota restrictions on the number of animals that small packers (whose plants are not federally inspected) can slaughter; 2) gave them permission to ship interstate. This should mean more meat for big cities from the thousands of small U.S. packers...