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...withholding tax, did not touch the question of compulsory savings, on the plea of Treasury Secretary Morgenthau that the voluntary sale of war bonds should be given a full and fair trial. Latest reports were that the country was some $150 million below the $800 million war bond quota for June. The Treasury, however, felt certain that, with increased pressure, the $1 billion quota for July and succeeding months would be reached. But proponents of enforced savings argued that even the sale of $6 billion in war bonds in the remainder of the year would not close the conservatively estimated...
Hoping that the information given will be sufficient to enable you to 'assign me the proper quota for this year, and thanking you in advance for whatever attention this request may merit, I am your servant and good friend...
...program has been considerably liberalized of late. Eye requirements have been lowered (but not below 12-20) and the opportunities for Specialists Commissions for men with 12-20 eyes increased. The 35,000 officer candidates quota first set as a maximum, is now regarded as a minimum. V-1 officers will be in Lowell C-12 all day Monday, to explain this to men from '44, '45, and '46. A V-5 officer will be there as well, and at the same time the Army Air Force has a representative stationed in Lowell...
Elliott Perkins, head of the University's War Service Information Bureau, announced yesterday that the Harvard quota for the Army Enlisted Reserve was strictly limited, and that students intending to enlist should not delay in filling out their applications...
...Chicago, Continental Roll & Steel Foundry has upped production 20% with 200 workable employe suggestions since January. Elgin Watch Co. (at Elgin and Aurora, Ill.) has seen its fuse plant zoom to 65% above its production quota in the two months its shop committee has been in existence. Aurora's Independent Pneumatic Tool Co. has seen a 21% production increase, is hauling in 100 new production ideas a week-and paying for good ones at the low rate of one $5 defense stamp apiece, because the committee asked the company not to pay more...