Word: quota
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Divinity School, it has wisely decided not to do so until it is sure of its investment. Therefore, only after the first $2,000,000 is raised from public subscription, will the Corporation hand over half of its proposed grant; it will supply the rest when the quota is reached...
...House committee's plan follows Vinson's proposal in regard to the original 60,000-man quota and the expansion to almost a million in a year...
...went tough, 55-year-old Karel Bacilek, Moscow-trained son of a Slovak bricklayer, and former Minister of State Control, i.e., Big Brother to all Czech industry. Bacilek's appointment seemed to indicate a new Kremlin policy in Czechoslovakia. Disturbed by the Czechs' failure to deliver their quota of weapons and equipment to the Red army, the Kremlin is getting rid of men like Slansky and Kopriva, who were good Communist theoreticians but sloppy administrators, and replacing them with lesser-known Communists who know how to get things done...
Draft boards that have already run out of 21 year olds may not call men up for a month or more, Wood added, while other boards use their 21 year olds to make up the state quota...
...Petie, suspected of killing a white man, is shot from ambush. But by that time, Lilian Sayre has grown up enough to know why Carl behaved as he did, and how much she had to do with it. She has also crossed the color line, bearing a full quota of sympathy for Clara. Author Coleman has told his story with a simplicity that only occasionally slips into naiveté. Clara is no major work of fiction, but it is an honest book on a ticklish subject, and it has the virtue of being about ordinary people, well understood...