Word: quotas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Studying and practicing modern research methods. About two hours a day is the quota for getting experience which will fit you to sell Frigidaires to Eskimos or yourself to the girl of your dreams, according to your slant on things...
...taking meals in other Houses more than three times a week. The present rule is almost paradoxical, since Harvard is noted for its treatment of undergraduates as rational human beings. Furthermore, a "host" rarely has the effrontery to ask his guest if he is exceeding his outside meal quota, and so frequently gets stuck if he is exceeding his outside meal quota, and so frequently gets stuck with the check. If an unlimited inter-House meal plan were adopted, visiting could logically be curtailed during House dinners and other special occasions...
Next week A.A.R. will put into effect the "100% rule" (not used for coal since strikebound 1922): coal mines must use 100% of the cars they order each day, or have their next day's quota reduced. Crux of the coal problem is that the U.S. has never caught up with the coal lost in last April's 29-day strike.* All through late spring and summer the U.S. Government (from wolf-crying Harold Ickes to sanguine Ralph Budd) urged coal consumers to buy ahead, avoid the fall traffic peak. Yet, in the first seven months of this...
...frontiers, drops M. Boyer, 42, into the U.S. melting pot. As Georges Iscovescu, renowned European gigolo and dancer, he is one of a hotelful of émigrés impatiently waiting to cross into the U.S. from a little Mexican border town. Impatient at the slow arrival of his quota number, he takes a tip from a former dancing partner (Paulette Goddard) who has married her way across the U.S.-Mexican border...
...Military Science quota is based on an estimate of the number of reserve officers desired. All the R. O. T. C. units in the country now turn out an approximate 10,000 trained men a year, which the War Department apparently considers sufficient for the time being. The number is increased further by selectees who gain commissions through the government training program. The output of Naval officers is necessarily much smaller, and the 27 units in various colleges only produce 7200 men every four years...