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When the War Production Board sets civilian-production quotas, it isn't fooling. So discovered the Hurley Machine division of Chicago's Electric Household Utilities Corp. Ordered to make only 44,000 washing and ironing machines last fall, said WPB, Hurley made 76,000 instead. The penalty, imposed by WPB last week: complete shutdown of production for six months. Suggested name for quota chiselers: chislings...
...grand total of $37,842.17 has been received by the Harvard office of the United War Fund with the official drive completed. This figure, $3,000 over previous estimates but still short of the $40,000 quota, consists of donations of $25,821.81 from the Faculty, $7,683.58 from employees, and $4,386.78 from the student body...
This figure stands $6,000 below the quota set for the University by the Greater Boston leaders, and only scattered returns are expected for the remainder of the week...
Specific figures were unobtainable because of the constant influx of contribu-in the Wadsworth House headquarters, but Perkins estimated that $31,000 had been received by last night. This is still $9,000 short of the University quota of $40,000, with the greatest deficit among the student body...
Canvassing will be completed today in an attempt to equal and exceed the quota. The employees have already donated more than they did to the Community Fund last year and if not for the absences to Washington, the Faculty would have broken past records also...