Word: quota
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...establish roadblocks on Cairo-to-Suez highways. Egyptian staff officers pored over studies of the 1951-52 fighting to make sure that they wouldn't make the same mistakes. The government restricted sales of supplies to the British garrison (Tommies feared for their three-bottles-a-day quota of Stella beer...
...Army yesterday announced the lowest Selective Service draft quota in over a year when it issued a call of 23,000 men for the month of July...
Talk of cutting next year's Air Science III quota crystallized yesterday afternoon as 96 cadets heard their commanding officer, Colonel Frank Bostrom, tell them only 19 of their number will graduate to the advanced course with non-flight contracts...
Bostrom announced, however, that there is an unlimited quota for students who pass the flight physical. Fifty-four men in the present Air Science II class, which totals 191 men, have qualified for flight...
Except for the high-speed antics of hot-rodders and last fall's normal quota of noisy football parties, U.S. youth had been relatively quiet ever since college pantie raids ran their nylon-pennoned course last spring. But last week the volcanic nature of the young erupted in two curious tribal gatherings-one at Fort Lauderdale, Fla., the other at Balboa, Calif.-as thousands of students, freed from their books by Easter vacations, swarmed seal-like to the two towns' beaches to swim, fight, drink, woo, bask in the sun and howl at the southern moon...