Word: quota
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...educational facilities offered, Brandeis has been the frequent target of criticism on a quantitative basis. Its only graduate school is a small (150) one in arts and sciences, and critics clamor for a medical school--as a haven for Jewish medical students denied access elsewhere because of apparent quota limitations...
...Cure. In Windsor, Ont., charges of drunken driving against Verne Smith, 40, were dismissed after he told the court that he could not have been drunk at the wheel because he had downed only five of his daily quota of 15 beers, explained that he drinks so much that alcohol no longer has any effect...
...rise, forecasting further price drops for farmers, was caused largely by the Agriculture Department's price-support operations on other fronts. In the years 1953-55, some 29 million acres were taken out of wheat and cotton production under the crop quota program. But on 17 million acres farmers started growing feed grains. This and the large corn crops pushed down the price of feed, thus encouraged farmers to raise cattle faster than the demand called for. To add to the trouble, pig production, which normally does not move up with cattle production, also increased. As a result...
...probable that the quota will have to be filled by college graduates before they enter graduate schools, although it is too early to tell," Colonel Paul Feeney, of the State Board, explained...
Colonel Feeney said he did not forsee a rise in the draft quota in the near future. The national quota is 6,000 for February, 16,000 for March, and 6,000 for April...