Word: quota
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only the auto industry, which did its squawking early and was plagued by unemployment, got a bigger slice. Its steel quota, originally set for 800,000 cars, was boosted to 900,000. But there was a big catch: the industry will get only enough copper and aluminum for 800,000 cars, will have to stretch it or find substitutes. So far, substitutes have not proved too practical. General Motors, which started using coated steel radiators seven months ago, found them rusting so badly that G.M. estimated it would spend $5,000,000 replacing the defective units...
...confusion cannot be blamed on the draft board; located in an area where men of draftable age are mostly preparatory or college students, and faced with a quota to fill, it probably had little choice. As long as national draft policy consists of conflicting decisions made by several thousand little draft boards as they try to fill arbitrary and rapidly changing demands from above, the question of students status will remain in the same category as the Martian canals...
There were a few rifts in the clouds, of course. The normal quota of good deeds were done as a result of the Christmas spirit, at the same time that the normal number of people died in automobile accidents. Winston Churchill came for a visit and, even if it wasn't quite the same old Churchill and the English newspapers did warn he was going to get a cold reception from the U.S. government, he looked impressive and hopeful in his "sawed-off stovepipe hat," and he said that chances of peace in 1952 seemed good...
...Defense Department yesterday set the February draft call at 55,000, a drop of 4,650 from the January quota...
...their appraisals of the poet's work. He argues, with convincing passages from the essays on "The Idea of a Christian Society" and the recent 'Notes towards a Definition of Culture," that Eliot has on occasion condoned fascism, and has actively advocated a theory of education based on the quota system and the premise that only the aristocracy are entitled as of right to higher learning...