Word: quotas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italian goods were purchased by the Allied Control Commission and shipped to the United States Commercial Co.-a subsidiary of the Foreign Economic Administration. USCC will set the prices and prorate the merchandise among U.S. importers on a prewar quota basis. As long as such joint military-political control of trade by USCC is necessary, the importer is only a broker for a state monopoly of international commerce...
...That means, of course, that it must not be subject to a reservation that would require our representative to return to Congress for authority every time he had to make a decision. Obviously Congress, and only Congress, has the Constitutional power to determine what quota of force it will make available and what discretion it will give our representative to use that force...
...ears of competitors at the same table, the automen sketched in the dark picture. C. E. Wilson, white-thatched General Motors president, estimated that by Jan. 1 G.M. would have only 17% of the machine tools needed to turn out 50% of its prewar car production (the quota tentatively set by WPB). The rest of the tools are not even promised until next June 1. K. T. Keller, the chunky, soft-voiced boss of Chrysler Corp., deftly added some dark shading. "Before Chrysler can build its first car, it must clear 17,000,000 square feet of floor space . . . install...
...Quota. The problem was compounded of small ifs, manpower, absenteeism and faulty scheduling. But the real answer lay in labor-management history. Could Akron finally end its labor-management feud? Three years of world war had failed...
...real production stranglehold is the "quota." The quota started as a scheme to beat the hated production speed-up which workers suspect in Akron's piecework system. In the past, faster work often meant that the company would cut the payrate per piece. Thus, to make certain they do not work harder for less money, workers in many departments set their own quotas. This has been brought to such scientific control that many pieceworkers collect the same amount in their paychecks-down to the last cent. For long, companies approved the quota-it kept skilled employes from burning themselves...