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There was no set number of winners and no formula for the value of the awards. In a typical case, for a course with a $100 quota, the Committee might decide that one man deserved $70 and another man $30. Prize money came from a fund given by the Visiting Committee of the Board of Overseers...
...large-scale price support plan involves the problem of overproduction by farmers because the government is always giving them a good price. This problem is handled by marketing quotas, drawn up by the farmers themselves. A quota limits the amount of a commodity a farmer can market, if he wants to receive subsidy benefits. This method, in effect, gives the farmers monopoly powers. Under the Brannan plan, the quota system would be greatly expanded. This part of the plan has raised the howl of "government control" in Congress. The main argument against the quota system is that it is liable...
Campaign Chairman Frederick M. Fialkow '51 expects the drive to slide over its quota, but last night urged men not already signed up to add to the donations. All blood collected goes to local hospitals for use by patients who cannot afford the cost of blood transfusions...
...Council and the HLU promised $100 and $50 more respectively should the 'Cliffe freshmen fall short of their quota. The freshmen hope that a dance with Harvard tomorrow evening in the Annex gymnasium will provide the remaining amount...
...help make the cloud, a daily quota of 100 tons of metallic oxides goes up the flue. Factory smokestacks, city dumps, backyard trash fires, automobile exhausts and even coffee roasters unite in sending up an immense mess of aerial garbage-estimated altogether at 2,000 to 5,000 tons...