Word: quotas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nobody could buy a new car or truck in the U.S. last week. Nobody can until a rationing system is worked out-probably by Jan. 15. OPM barred all civilian sales. Furthermore, OPA told Detroit that its January production quota would be its last. By month's end the assembly lines will dead-stop...
Emmons is now waiting to hear from Government quarters exactly what quota of men his course will be permitted to train this semester. Permission has already been granted to Harvard to extend the training to two students from Pan American countries, and selection of these men is now under way. It is still possible, of course, that with the war emergency, the Government will cease civilian training and place all pilot instruction in the hands of the Army and Navy...
...Dean Chauncey's office receives a call for volunteers, emergency or otherwise, the appeal will go straight to the sub-committee concerned. From there it goes out to the students who have indicated their desire to do the particular kind of work. By this division of labor the volunteer quota for any one call should be filled inside of thirty minutes...
...Dutch will not take that blow without trading blows of their own. They have set their submarines and planes a stiff quota: one Japanese ship a day. Last week, after 19 days of a kind of fighting that the first white Raja of Sarawak never pictured, even in nightmares, they were not far behind their quota. They had sunk...
...defense industries may offset it for a while. Some of them are being cut off short. Last week OPM's tire ban ended for a time the bulk of the civilian sales of the rubber industry (200,000 employes, 200,000 tire outlets). The new auto quota cut foreshadowed no new passenger cars after Jan. 31. Washing machine output (7,000 employes) was cut to one-third of last year's; makers of juke boxes, pinball machines, coin scales, etc, (about 12,000 employes) were...