Word: quotas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ballet dates from the lace-pants centuries, when kings and nobles were its patrons. Modern balletomanes, a tribe with a better-than-average quota of lacy characters, could probably think of likelier patrons of the ballet than Big Business-especially such a big business as Ford Motor Co. Yet at the New York World's Fair, Ford became the ballet's first industrial patron by launching a 17-minute production called A Thousand Times Neigh. A free show, performed twelve times a day in a plushy new $500,000 theatre in the Ford building, the ballet is done...
...collected in the first week of the student drive for the Red Cross war relief fund, chairman John F. Kennedy '40, announced yesterday. Most of this was in large donations, he added, stating that the response from the student body would have to be much greater if the Harvard quota of $1,200 was to be reached...
...quota we have set for Harvard is $1200. Anything over that" he added, "would be a measure of students' sympathy for the war-afflicted peoples of Europe. The Committee hopes that every member of the College will take part in the drive by making some contribution, no matter how small...
...room, followed closely by his tapper, or shakes his head (refusal). Each society picks 15. Tapping usually ends when the Battell Chapel clock strikes 6, but in 1936 Wolf's Head, turned down by 17 tappees, went on tapping long after dark to fill its quota...
...market for U. S. cotton has been England, whose imports from the U. S. since August have averaged over 200,000 bales a month. But beginning in February British ships were allowed to carry home only 100,000 bales of U. S. cotton a month; this month, this quota is cut in half...