Word: quota
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under the terms of the will, if the Divinity School drive does not meet its quota of $4,000,000, the money will be turned over to the Union Theological Seminary...
...those over 50, if they are widowed or still single. The club's main purpose is matrimony. At each meeting, successful former members address the group to urge old girls on, give them helpful hints on winning a man so that the club can meet its annual quota of marriages...
...Poles had other troubles. Cracow's Communist Echo grumbled that "not even State [haberdashers] can conceal sleeves of different lengths, bursting seams, ill-fitting collars, missing buttons." Polish children go hungry. The potato supply, wrote Warsaw's Trybuna Ludu last month, is only 40% of the quota; since then, spuds have become even scarcer...
...Elimination of all quota restrictions on imports, notably in the Defense Production Act of 1951. For example, it restricted importation of various cheeses from European nations at a time when the U.S. cheese industry was selling more cheese to the other nations of the world than the U.S. was importing. This, to the Board, was ample proof the American cheese industry could compete without protective duties or quotas...
GAINESVILLE, GA., which numbers 11,936 people, fixed itself a quota of $34,528. On its streets last week, practically every electric power and telephone pole bore Red Feather placards and the slogan "Give." Over the two local radio stations, at 30-minute intervals, sounded one loud knock, then seven more knocks, and finally a voice saying, "You'd rather have your door knocked once than seven times, wouldn't you? Give to the Community Chest!" (The knocks referred to the seven local agencies for which funds were being sought...