Word: quota
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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General Daniel Needham, Director of the Massachusetts Red Cross Blood Program, announced yesterday that the state would double its daily quota of 600 pints. At least 230 pints, he stated, must be shipped daily to the west coast for Korean causalities, and the remainder will go to veterans' hospitals...
...Taking Orders." But was the policy actually so stern? The test would come as the Administration moved to fill out the quota of men it needs to put into uniform. Where were the additional men coming from? To maintain a force of 3,000,000 at constant strength, 750,000 replacements would be needed every year. Who were they going...
...burden would fall on the nation's youth, 1,100,000 of whom turn 18 every year. Assuming that 30% of them would be rejected as physically or mentally unfit, the fit would be barely enough to fill the annual quota of 750,000. Under the present law they could volunteer or be drafted. But last week, adding confusion and solving nothing, President Truman raised the question again of universal training. He left out the "military," as he always does in discussing the ticklish subject. To the convention of National Guardsmen the President said: "Eight times I have asked...
...fall of 1949, an exemption quota of 25 percent was established for English A. Previously exemptions in the course had been limited to some three percent from a class who achieved a certain level of proficiency on a test. This year the 25 percent exemption quota was still in operation, and another 200 wriggled away from the freshman composition course by enrolling in General Education A, and experimental course in which the students explore subject matter through short compositions. This course, if it is judged successful, may soon displace English A altogether...
...total of $421.57 by preliminary count was collected in a day-and-night fund-raising attempt. Added to $80 gathered last spring, the drive has surpassed the $500 quota promised to the University. The University had previously guaranteed an $800 scholarship to the displaced person with the understanding that the council would make up the remainder of his living expenses...