Word: quotas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rationing was made necessary more by hoarders' fears of it than by a serious shortage in 1942 supplies. Nor does his 1942 quota (77 lb., counting industrial supplies) threaten the U.S. citizen's health, whatever it does to his sweet tooth. But industrial users are in a worse fix. Not only are they under quota, but their foresighted purchasing was in vain...
...quota for the Quartermaster R.O.T.C. at the Business School has been raised from 150 to 400 students. Professor A. James Casner announced last night. He requested that students who are qualified and interested immediately get in touch with the Harvard Business School...
...highest in history. In the scramble to get into action, 60,000 men joined the Army, 56,000 the Navy, 18,000 the Marine Corps. The Coast Guard, which issues no figures on total monthly enlistments, was so swamped with volunteers that it had to take recruits on a quota system. The Marine Corps, its membership boosted to 85,000, has doubled its strength of a year and a half ago. Its goal...
...Naval Supply Corps, whose school is located as an adjunct of the Harvard Business School, is now seeking to fill a quota of 350 men from throughout the United States. University men wishing to enlist, who must be Seniors between 19 and 26 years of age and have 15-20 vision, should not apply at a recruiting station but instead should make a preliminary application at Harvard. These applications will be graded here and then referred to the Supply Corps headquarters, where final selections will be made...
Meanwhile the automakers had wangled an important last-minute concession from Washington: they can make 204,848 more cars this month before they close down. Since this is double the January quota set a month ago, it made the manufacturers feel pretty chipper. Washington did not. Only reason for any automobiles at all in January is that the automakers jiggled the priorities-allocations machinery artfully enough to pile up $213,000,000 in finished and semi-finished parts. None of these parts can be used in war work, so Washington ruefully okayed the quota boost. This will...