Word: quota
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plan, Dean Small explained, only 18 of these may be used before Christmas vacation, with a bonus of three permissions allowed during exam and reading periods. Girls who do not use the maximum of 18 permissions before the holidays, may add the ones left over, to the after-Christmas quota...
...million, two hundred thousand dollars--all the money not earmarked for scholarships, library, teaching fellows, and research--will be used to meet the building expenses of the Graduate Center. The Law School's quota is somewhere above this $1,200,000 and below $1,650,000, the original estimate...
Louisiana and Utah were the only states that exceeded their quotas, Louisiana raising 147.5 percent of its goal and Utah 109.4 percent. Montana met its quota exactly, while New York raised $543,322.99 or 95.1 percent. Hawaii had the best record of participation, with all its graduates giving a gift. In 1949, 988 law students contributed $28,289.90 to the fund...
Cause for Alarm! (MGM) rates its exclamation point as the year's first thriller with an honest quota of thrills. It pulls off the old Hitchcock trick of giving commonplace people, events and settings a sinister meaning, and it develops its simple, one-track idea with frightening logic...
...cried that there was no need for DiSalle's scheme because there was plenty of meat. The only real problem, they insisted, was to keep meat production on the rise. "All we can do," said Wilson & Co.'s Vice President James Cooney, "is hope to God the quota plan will work. But we know...