Word: quota
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Students interested in attending an announced dinner sign on a first-come-first-served basis until the quota of 14 is filled. After sherry and dinner other interested students may join the group...
Among the three groups expected to provide the additional amount, only national alumni are within sight of their goal, having collected over 98 per cent of the $12 million quota. Philip H. Theopold '25, chairman of the group, has urged all alumni who have not yet contributed to make their gifts before Commencement...
...this time Castro was charming the American Society of Newspaper Editors, which in January invited him to its convention-luncheon (and noted last week that "the demand for tickets was the greatest since General MacArthur returned from the Far East"). In 15-minute answers, Castro criticized the U.S. sugar-quota policy, defended the execution of "war criminals." (Firing squads in Cuba shot 28 more last week, raising the total to 521.) He evaded questions about his stand for neutrality in the cold...
...last year) and a big bulge at Ford. Preliminary sales figures for March showed that Ford, which had lagged slightly behind Chevrolet in February, had nudged it out of first place in March, 130,800 to Chevy's 130,600. With sales rising, Ford upped its production quota for the second quarter in its Mercury-Edsel-Lincoln Division by more than 30%. Pontiac stepped into third place in March with 36,640 cars, followed by Oldsmobile with 34,560, Plymouth with 32,700, and Rambler with...
...leap forward. The People's Daily recently acknowledged that production of coal, iron and steel is "still unable to meet the demands." Accordingly, in the key provinces of Yunnan and Hupeh, Mao's government early last month reintroduced work norms and extra pay for "overfulfillment of the quota"-devices that had been abandoned in the heady, doctrinaire days of the great leap. This doubtless shocked the ideological zealots who only a few months ago were boasting that the slavery of the people's communes would mean realization of the Marxist ideal-"from each according to his ability...