Word: quotas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...common with colleges throughout the nation Harvard officials have upped the quota of this year's batch of Yardlings in an attempt to maintain at normal levels a student body badly crippled by the draft and the needs of national defense...
With the usual quota of more than a hundred candidates expected to participate. Coach Boston plans to get up steam immediately with organizational talks and full-uniform signal practice. The opening game with Exeter is scheduled for October 11 leaving "Chief" Boston three brief weeks in which to whip an efficient squad into shape...
Thus, in a few words, Jim Adams made mincemeat of his own elaborately worked-out quota system. Privately some OPM-ites had already said there was not enough copper for essential defense and civilian needs (TIME, Aug. 18); officially, OPM had recognized an 11,000,000-ton steel shortage for this year; the aluminum shortage was already a vaudeville joke. As far as OPM's meager statistics showed, the quotas were not only a maximum but a reverie. It was possible, to be sure, that automakers had much bigger inventories of scarce materials than they admitted. (They had enough...
...cartel (which controls 97% of the world's crude rubber production) has yet to produce up to the previous quota of 100%. Moreover, rubber trees take seven years to mature; so output cannot be increased overnight. But there are some idle trees to be tapped in the East Indies now. The big plantation owners, who tap their trees carefully, will probably not increase their production much. But the natives, who grow half the East Indies rubber and whose real capacity is at best a district officer's guess, will tap trees to the point of destroying them...
...ally and Japan was not. It was also reasonable to refuse to sell Japan more products than Japan could reasonably use for home consumption, since Germany, Japan's ally, was at war with The Netherlands. Furthermore, it was reasonable to subtract from Japan's usable quota the tin and rubber which Japan was getting from French Indo-China. It was reasonable, before accepting Japan's demands for increased immigration quotas, to ask Japan to fill the existing quota (which Japan had so far failed to do by 300 immigrants annually). Finally, it was reasonable to grant...