Word: quotas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to a recent Army release, all men accepted by the Army Air Corps are subject to call as soon as possible after the end of the first term ending in 1943, and, as this was January 31 at Harvard, Perkins expects all those in the Harvard quota to be called within two months...
...Damns. Lowell roused serious controversies among much larger groups than Harvard's alumni. He was roundly damned for protesting the appointment of Louis D. Brandeis to the U.S. Supreme Court for "lack of judicial temperament," for proposing a quota for Jewish students at Harvard as an anti-anti-Semitic move during the Ku Klux rampage of 1922, for barring Negroes from freshman dormitories. He was internationally damned for his part in the Sacco-Vanzetti case. In 1927 at the request of Massachusetts' worried Governor Alvan T. Fuller, LowelLand two others* reviewed the trial of the two anarchists, declared...
...Harbor. Aircraft production fell short by 12,000 planes or 20%. Tank and anti-aircraft gun programs were both revised by Washington and neither reached the original goals. But the shipbuilders splashed through with 746 ships totaling 8,090,800 tons, 90,800 tons over the President's quota...
...Petroleum Administrator Harold Ickes issued a new order: the total oil taken from supply tanks in 17 Eastern states "must be within the limits of the supply which the Petroleum Administration determines will be available in that area during any quota period...
...nursing schools had last week signed up only 68% of their 1942-43 quota of 55,000 new students. School directors admit they have a tough job selling nursing as a career to girls. Next year will provide a bigger problem: the U.S. Public Health Service will ask the schools to round up 65,000 girls, because 1) the Army & Navy plan to add some 35,000 more nurses to their present staff of 20,000; 2) civilian hospitals and public-health services need 30,000 nurses...