Word: quotas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Somebody slipped up in planning ahead for the production of heavy-duty tires. This was made plain last week as 1) the Army, which unexpectedly hiked its tire needs from 16.4 million to 26.8 million a year, found that it will get far fewer; 2) the quota for civilian truckers was cut almost 50% under ODT's "bare minimum" for the first quarter...
Wartime prosperity reared its bejewelled head in Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House last week. The new season opened with less than its usual quota of mink and diamonds, with slightly less than its usual quota of artistic quality, but with a record quota of enthusiasm. The newly prosperous, aided and abetted by soldiers and sailors on leave, not only jampacked the plush and gilt auditorium but indulged in ecstasies of applause. In fact, during the second night's Don Giovanni, indiscriminate applause became such a problem that Conductor George Szell had to shush his audience with threatening gestures...
With a seven percent increase in contributions needed in order to meet the quota, the Cambridge Tuberculosis and Health Association will open its annual Christmas Seal drive at Harvard on November 27, it was announced yesterday by Mabel M. Brown, executive secretary...
...Production Board got sizzling mad at Marshall Field's New-Dealing Chicago Sun, which campaigned hotly for the fourth term. Grated WPB: "During the second quarter of 1944, the Chicago Sun used or caused to be used 886.89 tons of print paper in excess of the quota. . . . The violations were willful. This excessive use of paper . . . has hampered and impeded the war effort of the United States of America...
...price war will result from the wheat subsidy plan, since the four major wheat-producing nations (U.S., Canada, Australia, Argentina) have divvied up the world market on a quota basis for the next year and will not be competing. But some economists believe this is also bad, since it amounts to an international Government cartel...