Word: quotas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with careful management. Their main fact: despite strikes, slowdowns and shocking absenteeism (up to 29%), 408,000,000 tons of bituminous coal have been mined so far his year (7,500,000 more than a year ago). The industry is within striking distance of its 600,000,000-ton quota. Anthracite coal production is also above a year ago. To worry warts, brooding over a chilly U.S. while Italy gets warm, the coal men point out that the 3,500,000 tons needed annually in Italy is being mined every two days...
...death; and blasphemy was any doubt that the Bible was the Word or that Jesus was the Son of God. Blue laws began not with the Puritans but in England, in 1448, "when all England was Catholic." Every American colony, Puritan and non-Puritan, Quakers included, had its quota of blue laws...
Tickets to a special bond rally will be given to all college men who buy bonds before September 28 from the War Service Committee's representatives in the three civilian Houses. Harvard's quota in the Tihr War Loan...
...brine-streaked merchant vessel last week landed the largest shipment of Ceylon tea ever to arrive at New York. The cargo, 35,000 chests (over 3 million lb.) of tea (enough to last U.S. tea drinkers three weeks), is a part of the 65 million lb. in the U.S. quota under last April's British-American allocation agreement...
...Bibles and Testaments, is refusing all new orders until these are filled. Oxford University Press (which manufactures 80% of its Bibles and Testaments in the U.S.) now fills back orders on a percentage basis, has announced that beginning Oct. 1 it will ration Bibles, giving bookstores a quota based on previous sales...