Word: quotas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Every nation would subscribe its quota by giving the Fund a credit in its own currency, except that each nation would have to put up some gold - either 25% of its quota or 10% of its gold reserve, whichever is less. (This is a compromise between the Keynes plan, which did not definitely stipulate any gold, and the White plan, which called for 50% in gold...
...first reason is the Government's paper curtailment program, with which TIME is cooperating wholeheartedly. Our paper quota for 1944 is only 59% of what we were using in the fall of 1942, and TIME and its brother magazines are budgeted to use 73,000,000 Lb. (1,450 carloads) less paper than in 1942. This means we cannot possibly print enough copies for all the people who want them...
Although the Navy has failed to attain its full chaplain quota, its chaplains have increased from 104 (before Pearl Harbor) to 1,809. Roman Catholic and Jewish quotas are well filled, but the Protestant quota lags. Chief of Army Chaplains William R. Arnold has no such problem. Last week Roman Catholic Chaplain Arnold reported that the Army is "about on schedule" with "approximately 7,000" chaplains in service. Only the Methodist Church is "very short." The Army recently upped all denominational quotas 35% so that chaplaincies left unfilled by one church may be filled by candidates from another church which...
...which is not far above the cost of gathering it from the scattered wild trees of the jungle. Far Eastern plantation rubber is much cheaper. Synthetic rubber may eventually prove cheaper still. Apparently the only hope for Brazil's war-built wild rubber industry is some sort of quota agreement with...
Limited-service draftees now account for only 5% of the present monthly quota of some 250,000 men (last year: 20%). Reason: the army has nearly as many partially fit men as it can use. Now that full-scale warfare is about to begin, the Army needs men who can fight...