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Gradually, the Chinese Communists have built it back. Anshan, the Communists admitted last week, fell below its 1951 steel quota-probably set at about 720,000 tons. But the rest of the triangle's mines, factories and machine shops, according to the Reds, reached their goals. The triangle is producing about 49% of all Red China's coal (Fushun's open bituminous pits are said to be the world's largest), 87% of its pig iron, 93% of its steel products, 78% of its electrical power...
...attacked Harvard as Communistic in the American Legion Magazine, the spring, 1952, issue of "New Foundations" reverses this policy, and puts the College, President Conant, the Board of Overseers, and the CRIMSON on the fascist pole of totalitarianism--using terms such as "white supremacy," "racism," genocide," "segregation," and "quota system...
...quota system at Harvard...
...editors do not stop with their snipe at Conant: "The administration at Harvard and the big businessmen and generals who compose the Board of Over-seas (Overseers) helped to prepare the way for the cross burning by maintaining a quota system ... and by following jim crow hiring practices which permit only two Negro teachers on Harvard's immense faculty...
...Marine Corps, which has been receiving draftees, did not ask for any in those months. It had previously announced that it hoped to rely on volunteer enlistments after it received a draft quota of 4,000 men in May. The Corps indicated, though, that it may take draftees again next fall...