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Automobiles. There are about 7,000,000 fewer on the road than on Dec. 7, 1941. With quota restrictions lifted, Detroit thinks the industry can turn out 600,000 by April 1946 and probably 3,000,000 more that year. How soon can Mr. Customer go into a salesroom, point to one and get it? Not for many months. Post-rationing orders are already piling up with dealers...
...first rule of most clubs, colleges and societies that apply "quotas" to restrict Jews is to deny that they would do any such thing. Dartmouth's longtime President Ernest Martin Hopkins, having frankly admitted to using the quota system at Dartmouth, last week found himself roundly damned...
...began to drop in the B-29 outfits. January losses were nearly 6%. Compared with losses at the most grueling period of the European bombardment, this percentage was not high. But it did mean that a man could expect to average 17 missions before he was killed-and no quota of missions had been set.* Furthermore, pilots and their crews, bombing mostly through heavy clouds did not know whether they were hitting anything or not. "I believe it is worthwhile," said one pilot, "because I've got to believe...
Shunning the high-cost variety programs which are standard diet on other networks, ABC instead plans to give listeners a full quota of news, sports events and music; it will also feature special events and public service programs. Already in the works is a special V-J day setup that Versluis boasts will "beat the brains" out of his rival networks...
...rate. Nobody would object, he found, to more big-name performers, especially if they looked like Marlene Dietrich. Determined to satisfy his audience, Abe went to work on Broadway and Hollywood. By V-E day, when the Army gave him a solid green light for transportation, he had his quota of stars and garters. Ready for action were smash-hit shows, top-bill specialty acts, operatic and concert stars, any and every other kind of talent...