Word: quotas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Episcopalians have gone 30% over their quota. Lutherans and the Presbyterian Church U.S. (Southern) have supplied all their chaplains for 1942. The Presbyterian Church U.S.A. (Northern), whose educational standards are also high, is somewhat less militant than these other three and is running slightly behind its quota...
...Roman Catholics are still well below their quota. Some bishops are short of secular clergy and so are not assigning enough priests for Army work. To ease the shortage, monks are being used. But Catholics have 200 applications on hand, expect to make up their deficit by Christmas. > There is a desperate shortage of Negro chaplains. The Army needs 70 as soon as it can get them, can use many more...
Winthrop House is the first House to top its quota for the Harvard Service Fund Drive, Thayer Drake '44, chairman of the drive for Winthrop revealed last night. A total of $1300 has been collected there, including money paid at registration...
...thousand four hundred seasick cows wished that they were in a nice Kansas City slaughterhouse. They were on their way to Panama to supply U.S. Army men with a daily quota of 14,000 quarts of fresh milk. According to Dr. Charles Edward North, Manhattan consulting milk sanitarian and an enthusiastic expert, the unhappy cows could have stayed at home. The soldiers need never have known the difference...
...although shipbuilders may not launch their full quota, repair yards this year have set a new and brilliant record. In a recent twelve-month period they overhauled and refitted some 5,500 ships (of over 1,000 tons each) and they did this in the incredibly short time of an average of 17 days per ship...