Word: quota
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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DiSalle ordered everybody but farm slaughterers to register with OPS, get a number to stamp on all meat sold. Each operator will be held to a slaughtering "quota" based on his 1950 sales but open to periodic adjustments to allow for changes in the overall meat supply. Farm slaughterers will have to put a ticket with their name and address on all the meat they sell, cannot sell more than 6,000 Ibs. a year apiece...
Livingston Hall, vice-Dean of the Law School and chairman of the Harvard Unit of the Red Feather Campaign, announced yesterday that the University raised $39,315 in the 1951 drive, a 14 percent increase over last year. The contributions came to 86.5 percent of the quota, which the Boston headquarters had increased about $11,000 over the 1950 goal...
...Army also set a draft quota of 80,000 men in March, the most in any month since the Korean war began...
Millions prepared to put the equipment to some use while they still could. Every beer parlor, bar & grill, nightclub and theater from coast to coast would have its quota of what U.S. newspapers habitually described as "merrymakers." Some would pay dearly for their headaches: an evening's fun for one at Manhattan's Stork Club or at Los Angeles' Giro's would run at least $25, at Chicago's Chez Paree...
Priority decisions still rest with the local boards, however, and local quota needs, rather than a deferment status, are becoming the main factor is determining who gets his uniform first...