Word: quota
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army cut the draft quota from 40,000 in May down to 20,000 in June. The aircraft industry was still jogging along on a 40-hour week, pleading for skilled technicians, far behind Harry Truman's expansive prediction of a 15,000-a-year rate by year's end; they would be lucky to reach a rate of 500 a month. In many defense plants, retooling was behind schedule. Manufacturers scornfully called DO (Defense Order) priority certificates "merely hunting licenses...
Skull and Bones, Scroll and Key, Berzelius, Wolfshead, Book and Snake, and Elihu will each claim 15 members. When juniors turn down places in a group, additional men will be tapped until each society has filled its quota...
...same letter erased almost all restrictions on German industry. It authorized production of synthetic oil and rubber, aluminum, chemicals for peacetime use, and, in effect, wiped out the quota on steel output. Still verboten were atom bombs, heavy munitions, certain optical instruments, airplanes, warships...
...next few days, the Huks did not know what hit them. Magsaysay's army attacked them steadily all over Luzon. In the Sierra Madre, the troops caught up with the Huk band that had murdered the Hardies, killed 20. The army fell far short of Magsaysay's quota of five Huks to every platoon (it claimed a total of 300 Huks killed last week), but the Huks were beaten back. March 29, the Huk anniversary, proved to be one of the most peaceful days the Philippines had known in years. Even bitter critics of the government agreed that...
Sargent Kennedy '28, Registrar, pointed out that the Army is nearing its quota faster than expected and that it probably will take far fewer students than was estimated earlier this year...