Word: quota
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Toledo last week, at the urging of U.A.W. Local 12 leaders, union members voted a 5% pay cut for Willys' 3,500 production workers. In the first such vote in auto history, the unionists agreed to give up incentive payments for work produced over a set quota. By increasing efficiency and shaving employment 5%, President Edgar Kaiser hopes to cut labor costs a total of 20% in the next six months. In return for the pay cut, he agreed to set up a fund into which Willys will contribute all savings from increased efficiency. One-third of the fund...
...fair," but the complete lack of fixed rules and the annual difficulties produced by flexible distribution gave way eventually to the present 70% method. Rather than have complete free choice or complete distribution, the masters settled on the compromise plan of permitting each House to fill 70% of its quota with first choice applicants. The remainder of the space would have to be filled with second and third choice applicants sent along from those not accepted by the first choice House. As is witnessed by several Houses today, this method is far from fool-proof in avoiding preponderance of students...
...children in. the Pittsburgh area. Some have had three shots, some two, some one, all with vaccine made in his own laboratory. Now Dr. Salk has begun a marathon vaccinating program. Switching to commercial vaccine, he will try to inoculate 2,500 children this week and finish their quota of shots in time for the foundation to begin mass trials in the South about April 12. By then, enough commercial vaccine will be ready for 370,000 children, foundation officials have computed, and there is plenty more coming along in the pipeline...
...budget will not justify overproduction of non-flying officers, it has cut AFROTC enrollment. This year's bumper crop of college seniors is the last, and the commissioning problem will not occur again. With little extra expense and a temporary Defense Department exception on the service's officer quota, the Air Force could honor its commitment. The AFROTC's over-recruitment four years ago should not hold back the commissions which these three thousand officer-candidates desire and deserve...
...Lack of vitamin C was suggested by Dr. Carl T. Javert, of Cornell University Medical College, as a common factor in the inability of some women to carry babies to term. Of 100 he tested, 91 had babies after taking (among other treatments) five times the normal quota of vitamin C-four big glasses of orange juice a day, plus a hesperidin supplement...