Word: quotas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army Air Corps has an even bigger quota to fill: 25,000 planes by 1942, for which it wants 36,000 pilots...
With its pilot output still around 475 a month, Air Corps Chief "Hap" Arnold announced last week that the Army's training quota for next year would be doubled: 24,900 cadets and officers would be started through the school. How many would be graduated at year's end no Air Corps man could say. Safe bet was around 15,000. Safer bet still was that both Army and Navy were out to beat airplane-production schedules; that when planes came off the lines there would be no lack of pilots to fly them...
...mutation of silver fox, platina fox furs come as low as $300, as high as $12,000. Since the quota on platina foxes has already been filled, due to unloading by Norwegian furriers before the war, the fur Ripley's four Norwegians brought with them is being held in a warehouse until December. To suggest the fur that wasn't there a fancy platina fox worth $11,000 was on display in the studio. On hand for the show were representatives of many a famed Manhattan store, along with bidders from stores in Philadelphia, Dallas, Cleveland, Chicago...
...patriotism of these men is not questioned. No fifth column is mentioned. The charges against them are appeasement, playing politics with national defense, negligence in face of danger, blundering, in eptitude, plain stupidity. Most crushing part of the indictment is the simple quota tions in Chapter I from survivors of the Battle of Flanders - brief, unemotional statements about the enemy's superiority in equipment, casual comments that it is "the story of an Army doomed before they took the field." The rest of the book is a true bill against the politicians who doomed these soldiers...
While the quota this year is reduced to forty it will undoubtedly run over, and aluce the course is not being given in two halves probably almost twice the number will be accommodated. A few of the successful applicants will probably be dropped because of mechanical inefficiency...