Word: quotas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Things you'd never forget department; Scrambled eggs, mackerel and 0000-0400 watches notwithstanding, Company C activity has a generous quota of bright and funny moments which most of us will never forget. For instance, the "Stephenfetchit" shuffle and Alabama brogue of Douglas Folsom who perpetually and loudly defends the deep south and his ability to receive flashing light.... Arthur Bornfriend in the Harvard Union billiard room, strongly insistent on a three-cushion game at the start and then finally consenting to straight-rail after making one billiard in 15 minutes. "You should do seen me when I was good...
...Portland, Ore., the seven men on a raft (TIME, Oct. 4) got off happily when lagging Oregon finally reached its $104 million quota...
...Coffee sales dropped from 10-50%; i.e., people hoard when things look scarce, stop buying and consume their hoards when supplies look plentiful again. Added evidence: tea and cocoa (still on a quota basis, and allegedly scarce) are still in as much demand as ever, though in the U.S. as a whole they are traditionally second-best substitutes for coffee...
Topping their U. S. Treasury quota of 12,000 by nearly 50 per cent, the civilian Houses completed the University's war bond campaign last night with a total of $2951 sold in bonds and stamps, according to Bertram A. Knight '46 of Adams House, acting as civilian Houses Director in the Third War Loan Drive...
...seven had vowed to live on shipwreck rations until Oregon made its $104 million war-bond quota. But Oregon stuck fast at 62%, with $40 million to go. The raft-sitters got no pity. Small boys on the river bank tauntingly waved hot dogs and ice-cream cones at them. Older folks heckled: "Why aren't you fellows at work?" Said one morose raft-sitter: "We'll stay here till Hell freezes over if it helps sell bonds. But if not, we want to know. We're sure ready...