Word: quotas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ship quota set for the Maritime Commission when it was organized, 71 vessels, from tankers to the 26,454-ton luxury liner America, have been delivered to ship lines operating under Government subsidy. Some of them have already been taken away or turned over to the Navy. Twenty-nine more have been launched and are in fitting-out basins, and contracts have been signed for 98 more. Meantime, the program has been pushed six months ahead of schedule...
...most striking features of the Harvard artists show at the Germanic Museum are not only the technical virtuosity displayed, but also the wide ranger of material and manner. There is perhaps a tendency towards too close imitation, but every artist seems to follow a different master. The usual quota of New England hillsides, the sort that too many amateurs attempt, forms a surprisingly small part of the total...
Since under plan E a quota is set for the number of votes needed to place a man in office, and any surplus ballots go to the voter's listed choice, the opponents charged that the people are unable to vote for the man of their choice...
Other evidence that enterprise was still alive in Britain last week: > It carried one firm too far. Hispano-Britannic Co., West End wholesale house, was fined ?1,250 under the Limitations of Supplies Order, for exceeding its sales quota of perfume, hosiery, fancy goods. >The London, the Associated and the Provincial Brokers' Stock Exchanges took voluntary action to reduce overhead. The kickback which banks and clerks had been getting from brokers as a finder's fee for new customers was cut from 50 to 33⅔% the broker's commission. In the case of other finders...
This burden should be shifted from the host's purse to the guest's memory. The limit should be made more generous, and then the one who overeats his quota by mistake or on purpose should be the one to pay. A fair method would be to include the meal in his contracted number but to add a nominal service charge of ten or fifteen cents to cover any extra expenses involved and to discourage House members from eating too many meals away from home...