Word: quotas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alloy. The appointment of tall dapper Hiland Garfield Batcheller, 57 to boss WPB's important Iron & Steel Branch seemed to make certain that WPB would throw its hopelessly confusing priority system out the window, set up a rigid allocations plan under which each manufacturer will get a quota that sticks...
Dalrymple's method is the six-hour day and a strict quota system which forces every member to work at the same speed. Thus while every factory pays piece rates, practically all banding department men earn $7.92 a day, all truck tire builders $8.90 a day. The men could earn more by turning out more units. But when one company wanted to boost the daily stint to 169 tire bands per man per day the union squashed it to 143 per day. Reason: a few men might not make the grade and get less money than others...
Premedical men, physicists, and other specialists will be well advised to join the Enlisted Reserve, unless they wish to enroll in V-1. The quotas for the Enlisted Reserve are filling up, and the Class of '44 has very nearly used up its quota. Immediate action on applications should not necessarily be expected for the rest of this term and the first week or two of the next...
...became "scrap commandos." For three weeks the World-Herald, which has a monopoly in Omaha and blankets the State (circulation 185,632), talked of almost nothing but scrap, had Nebraskans talking the same way. Result: 67,000 tons of scrap (103 lb. per capita), half the State's quota for six months...
...odds were that Nelson now would adopt something approaching Taylor's steel quota plan which would give one single authority power to divide the amount of steel available and give each user a quota for keeps. It was even likely that Nelson would apply similar quota systems to other commodities and toss the report-ridden, unwieldy old Production Requirements Plan ("Purp") out the window. If so, Taylor would have accomplished by quitting what he had not been able to do by working in Washington...