Word: quotas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Progressive elimination of all tariff and quota restrictions on world trade...
...matters stand at present, half of the 20 men who make up the University quota for the basic primary course will be selected for further training, while the other ten will enter the Armed Forces in June. Although they probably will receive no credit for the work they have done here, Emmons emphasized that their preliminary course will give them a great advantage in their military training and increase their chances of successfully meeting the stiff requirements of the Air Force...
...Boston office must fill its quota of 1000 men by July 1, and will take applications at any time. The volunteer must have four letters of recommendation and a letter from a doctor certifying that he is physically fit. The examination is not as strict as the Army one, and eyes may be corrected with glasses...
...chances are that the school will admit its full quota of 15 students, in July, though this is not yet definite...
...training routine during the "phony"' war had left him impatient of routine precautions. For him, no such impedimenta as gauntlets and goggles. Barehanded, open-eyed, through 23 days of combat duty at the peak of the Battle for Britain he went against the Messerschmitts. He had downed his quota in dogfights, learned to "Beware of the Hun in the Sun," to go into a spin when bullets started appearing along his port wing. "There is an appalling tendency," he remarks, "to sit and watch this happen without taking any action, as though mesmerized by a snake." That time...