Word: quotas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chico, Calif. exceeded its quota in two days-contributions from...
Eight more men became members of the 1942-43 Student Council When the nine popularly-elected members yesterday made appointments to fill the regular quota and to even up representation of college groups...
Uniformed soldiers, tanks and bombers, rather than toothsome girlish smiles, will sell this year's quota of cigarets and soup to the U.S. public. Last week the most important barometer of U.S. advertising art indicated that the long reign of the pretty girl, the adman's most unfailing little helper, was temporarily on the decline. That barometer was the annual exhibition of the Art Directors Club of New York, year's biggest event in advertising...
...cook, "was a 'numero' in all senses of the word." ("A 'numero' . . . was one degree lower than a 'type,' but less severe than 'individu.' ") Armed with a butcher's knife and fortified with three liters of red wine (her daily quota: five liters), Therese was formida ble. She endeared herself to the local wags by surreptitiously serving the unpopular Navet "chat farci" -stuffed...
...stated yesterday that Lieutenant-Colonel John J. Keough '25 of Westover Field will explain the new program to undergraduates next Monday in Emerson D, at 7:30 o'clock. Enlistments will take place on the 8th and 9th of May, at which time the Army hopes to fill its quota...