Word: quotas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from being dull, grinding, and unpopular sessions, the toughening program has been so successful that men stay beyond the close of their required hour and often attend more than the compulsory quota of workouts...
...boom you write about is only apparent. Even though the price of sugar has gone up and the Cuban sugar quota is larger, the cost of production has increased so much that even fair profits are questionable. Sugar bags have soared from 18 to 65? each, oil from 2 to 5? per gallon, steel plates from 2 ¾ % to 22? per pound, railroad ties from 90? to $1.60 each, wages from 80 and 90? to $1.30 and $1.40 per day, etc. To this one must add the extra cost of transportation caused by the storing of sugar...
...present time 175 are scheduled to arrive on August 10, and the quota of 400 will be filled later. They will live in Conant and Perkins Halls, formerly occupied by graduate students. There will be no housing problem, however, for the graduate school used to have an enrollment of 1200, and only about 200 are expected to be here in the fall...
...services have called upon the colleges to supply a continuous stream of officer material, and the campuses of America have become a maze of recruiting offices. Each service, vying with every other to fill blue-sky quotas, is dangling free deferment before the students' eager eyes. Little attempt is being made to fit the supply of college men to the specific needs of the various armed forces, and Selective Service Headquarters finds itself on the spot as the Army and Navy Reserve plans cut the heart from its quota. Many students, skeptical amidst the wealth of opportunity, are still "waiting...
Over 100 new student officers are scheduled to come here for the indoctrination course early in August, the paper reported. The quota which was set up under the agreement signed between the college and the Navy late last spring, will be made up of these officers who remain here for the radio communications course, added to the new men coming in for the indoctrination course when the present group leaves on August 29, and the new 100-odd who will arrive early in August...