Word: quotas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dunster House added a Sophomore to the ranks of its House Committee last week with the election of John Bullitt. The Committee has now filled its yearly quota of three Seniors, two Juniors, and one Sophomore...
...life. He cautioned big employers not to get panicky (on the average, said he, less than 5% of any one concern's eligible employes would be called). From national to State headquarters, then to local draft boards throughout the U. S., went computations of the first quotas to be called by November's end. Nearly everywhere, enough registrants had volunteered to supply the first 30,000 trainees. No man was accepted just because he had volunteered; rascals who hoped to flee family responsibilities were turned down cold. Some tried to evade service before they were called. Thousands...
...sunny" Alabama, battled mud, cold, rain, the discomforts of temporary housing in tents, on the whole kept their chins up if not dry. But strikes, bad weather, poor planning in some instances delayed construction of permanent bar racks, finally caused the Army to put off calling its second quota of 60,000 trainees until early next year. Originally, the plan was to have 800,000 draftees and one-year volunteers in uniform by next June. By last week, it looked as if the Army would have to add perhaps three months to its lagging draft schedule...
...composite make-up of the registered group in each local draft district. For example: The Army intends to call up 800,000 one-year trainees by next June 15 (the first 30,000 are to be called Nov. 18). Last week Selective Service headquarters first allotted gross quotas to each State, then deducted from these totals the number of men from each State who were already in service. Result: each State's net quota.† State draft administrators could then break up their Statewide quotas into the quotas for each local draft district...
With the posting of order numbers the draftee may tell with reasonable certainty how soon he is likely to be called. It is probable that the first fifteen numbers will produce the 30,000 the Army has asked for in November. This means that the University quota will not exceed twenty...