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...Dutch will not take that blow without trading blows of their own. They have set their submarines and planes a stiff quota: one Japanese ship a day. Last week, after 19 days of a kind of fighting that the first white Raja of Sarawak never pictured, even in nightmares, they were not far behind their quota. They had sunk...
...defense industries may offset it for a while. Some of them are being cut off short. Last week OPM's tire ban ended for a time the bulk of the civilian sales of the rubber industry (200,000 employes, 200,000 tire outlets). The new auto quota cut foreshadowed no new passenger cars after Jan. 31. Washing machine output (7,000 employes) was cut to one-third of last year's; makers of juke boxes, pinball machines, coin scales, etc, (about 12,000 employes) were...
There is urgent need for the blood, and a quota of 200,000 donors from the whole country, 15,000 to come from Greater Boston alone, was set even before the war broke out. Harvard's own quota calls for 2000 volunteers, and they are needed immediately. Two hundred and forty men have volunteered already, among them eighty Puritans, who signed up after an appeal by House Master Ferry, at the House Christmas dinner. A similar appeal at Leverett has produced sixty prospective corpuscle contributors, and other Houses are planning to follow suit...
...have ignored the Asiatic situation and tried appeasement; or we could, as Thomas suggested, have made a definite effort to call a halt to the conflict by conference, by offering trade proposals, and by altering the present unilateral Oriental exclusion act to a multilateral agreement, or even to a quota plan...
...House-masters, who are at present considering some such scheme as the double-up in a vague sort of way, should remember that the gravity of the present emergency obviates to a great extent these handicaps. It is more important that Harvard shall continue to attract a full quota of students than that a few men should have a "privacy" which by fostering snobbishness may be as harmful as helpful. As for lowering restrictions, it has been notorious for several years that any man with money enough to buy an expensive suite could get into some House unless...