Word: quotas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...change last week the Treasury Department had good news: September war bond sales hit $838,250,000, 20% above August and big enough to top the Treasury's own quota for the first time. September sales were nearly four times a year ago, pushed post-Pearl Harbor bond sales to more than $7 billion...
...President's plan is not designed to preserve Harvard's liberal tradition. A program proposing that one-third to one-half of our high school graduates be sent to "the most convenient college (on a quota basis)" to study a "nine to twelve months' course directed toward English Composition, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, and American History" is not merely a wartime compromise of a peacetime ideal. It is not the English system of wartime education, which allows men one year in college to study as they please. It is rather a proposal that the colleges as we have known them close...
This week Ferd Eberstadt's industry branch heads are each to lay on his desk their drafts for the better system. Washington dopesters thought they already saw its broad outlines: a "warrants" or "quota" system similar to the allocations system the British...
Result is that Packard has met every WPB quota. Despite higher & higher goals, aircraft-engine production was 17% above quota in May, 14% above in June and 13% above in July. Marine-engine output shows smaller gains. And since the plan started, there have been no strikes, no slowdowns, not even a minor labor fracas. Cheers. This has brought cheers from management, labor, Government. Three months ago Christopher twinkled through his spectacles, said the plan had "greatly increased production, stepped up efficiency, lessened waste." Union Man Murdock went overboard, said "the plan has worked out so well it has even...
...early months of 1917 were occupied with a series of heated drives among the student body to fill the quota of men in ROTC demanded by the War Department. Under the direction of Captain Cordier, the new regiment had barely begun its intensified training when the war with Germany broke...