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Because of a flagrant violation of war food orders-a little matter of exceeding their quota of rationed molasses by 771,000 gallons in a delivery to the Pepsi-Cola Co.-the Allied company had been denied further supplies. According to testimony heard last week before a Senate subcommittee, General Vaughan had hit on a helpful solution. He called up a young Department of Agriculture administrator named Herbert C. Hathorn and suggested that the whole thing could be fixed nicely by simply giving the company a new allocation of from 500,000 to 1,000,000 gallons...
...vacuum left by the abandonment of religious ritual and social ceremony has been filled by a new rite-a worship of The Rules and the strange gods behind them. 'No, I'm afraid we're right out of those-we're waiting for our quota,' says the stationer, with a mixture of exasperation and reverence for the goddess Quota that was once accorded by anxious Greek farmers to Demeter, bringer of harvests. 'I'm full up now-only eight standing inside-I can't take any more,' chants the bus conductor...
Harry Truman had called the 80th Congress' D.P. Act "a pattern of discrimination and intolerance." The D.P. Commission had declared it "all but unworkable," because it excluded thousands of Jews and Catholics. In nine months of operation, only 34,569 had been admitted out of a two-year quota of 205,000. Last week an Administration bill to admit 339,000 D.P.s in the next two years under more generous provisions reached the floor of the House...
...sales record at Harvard, although here too the picture is not nearly as black as portrayed. In the first place we could sell cards only to members of the College, thus making the maximum possible sale 5000, not 12,000 as was claimed. However we set a realistic quota of 1000 cards to be sold, and we sold 550 cards. We will be the first to admit that this is low, bat if considered in its true context as a part of the whole, which was quite successful, and not as the whole, which was quite successful...
What sort of citizens would such men be? The FORTUNE tellers could only guess. They would probably be good technicians, good managers, good neighbors. But would they ever do anything creative or provocative-"furnish any quota of free-swinging s.o.b.s we seem to need for leavening the economy?" Said FORTUNE: "The answers will be a long time in coming...