Word: quotas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Selective Service explained that its failure to keep up to quota was "partly because of pending legislation, partly for other reasons." The fact remained that by year's end Army & Navy net strength was almost 300,000 short of a planned net strength of 10,709,000. Planned net strength by next July...
Construction Chief Alexander Svistunov divided his labor forces (two-thirds of them were youths) into 150 crews, had each compete for the honor of being "Frontline Brigade," awarded only when a crew produces one and a half times its daily quota. Seventy crews won the honor. To them, Marshal Stalin sent thanks and congratulations; for them, No. 6 was called Youth Furnace...
...been one of diminishing returns. In May 1942, when Hobby's army was the WAACs, a kind of stepsister to the Army, but not an integral part of it, it looked as if women would indeed come marching "shoulder to shoulder." The Army had set the WAAC quota at a cautious 25,000. The first day 13,208 applied...
...months that followed, however, recruiting began to slide. The Army upped the quota to 150,000; enrollment by last summer was less than half that. In the fall the WAACs became the WACs, and a full-fledged branch of the Army, with soldier's privileges of insurance, pensions, dependency allotments and overseas...
Because of the great response to the Third War Loan Drive of September and October, 1943, which topped the $2000 quota by $1000, a new goal of $3000 has been set. Adams House won the last Drive, with Dunster placing and Lowell showing...