Word: quotas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...promised to deliver 300,000,000 pounds of meat to UNRRA in the first three months of 1946-but by last week UNRRA had received only 3.1% of the quota...
With the appointments of three new members, S. Douglas Cater '46, Dan H. Fenn, Jr. '44, and Roger S. Kuhn '46, the Student Council last night filled its standard quota...
...carrying on of every good cause [makes] it necessary that people of good health, mental and physical, and of good principles should have their full quota of children. Otherwise the irresponsible who propagate recklessly and give little thought to the nurture of their offspring will be represented in disproportionate numbers...
...mindful of sugar production in Hawaii, Puerto Rico-and the potent domestic sugar beet lobby-has balked at giving Cuba a good break. The U.S., too, has a point. It insists that Cuba not capitalize on the war, that its quota remain fixed at the prewar...
Selective Service had failed to fill its quota, although the quota was reduced from 80,000 a month to 50,000 after V-J day. Of 100,000 youths reaching 18 each month, many were volunteering in the Navy or Marine Corps. Almost 35,000 were being deferred on account of physical disability, educational plans, proved hardships. Instead of 200,000, a more lenient Selective Service in four months had produced only 140,000 new soldiers...