Word: quotas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when he got an O.K. from Boss Donald Nelson, his plans sometimes bogged down in the layers of "advisers." When his steel branch was gibbeted in an unauthorized report by a $5,600-a-year WPB hireling, it was about the last straw. Last week, when his new steel quota plan (TIME, Aug. 24) seemed to have been lost in a shuffle of compromise around Donald Nelson, Reese Taylor up and quit...
Lecture notes, textbooks, fountain pens and other implements of learning make up the bulk of the daily collections together with the usual quota of raincoat's and jackets...
...special sale of War Bonds and Stamps at the U. T. last night one anonymous benefactor offered to buy a $1000 Bond if the rest of the audience would buy $1000 between them. The quota was quickly reached, bringing the total to $2400 in ten minutes...
...capacity, is bogged in a steel "shortage." But the cure was not in intramural bickering in WPB's big undisciplined mob. A more likely solution had already been laid on Nelson's desk by big (6 ft. 3) hustling Reese Taylor, steel division chief: he wants a quota plan patterned after Bernard Baruch's World War I steel controls (TIME...
When OPA and Metals Reserve Co. offered a 5? premium over and above the 12? ceiling for increased copper production last winter they deliberately set the base quota on which no premium will be paid so high that they not only froze out the big three (Anaconda, Kennecott and Phelps Dodge, which produce 85% of U.S. copper) but also froze out all but one of the other 15 companies which with the big three produce 98½% of U.S. total...