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...capacity, is bogged in a steel "shortage." But the cure was not in intramural bickering in WPB's big undisciplined mob. A more likely solution had already been laid on Nelson's desk by big (6 ft. 3) hustling Reese Taylor, steel division chief: he wants a quota plan patterned after Bernard Baruch's World War I steel controls (TIME...
...Lincoln factory the daily quota was 284 vehicles. The men knocked them out easily one day, finished two hours ahead of time. They started to play: first they threw water, then buckets of water, then the buckets. When the Army security officer at the plant asked them to go back to work the reply was: the quota was made, that's all there...
...December the school will be graduating 1,000 WAACs, enrolling as many new ones, each week. By April 1943, the present 25,000 quota of the WAAC will be filled...
When OPA and Metals Reserve Co. offered a 5? premium over and above the 12? ceiling for increased copper production last winter they deliberately set the base quota on which no premium will be paid so high that they not only froze out the big three (Anaconda, Kennecott and Phelps Dodge, which produce 85% of U.S. copper) but also froze out all but one of the other 15 companies which with the big three produce 98½% of U.S. total...
...movies a few years back, the play won't be mere repetition, since each Dracula is sinister in his own chilly way. You can hear were-wolves and howling dogs off stage, while a bat and a maniac add to the actual scene. A full quota of green light, darkness, and feminine screams also serve to enliven the evening. The central character is the sinister, putty-faced Count Dracula, an evil combination of Superman and Batman...