Word: quotas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would nave enrolled 121,500 recruits in the two-and-a-half-month period. As it was, 85,000 volunteers signed up for a three-year enlistment. This figure broke another peacetime record. The Army theoretically needed only 95,000 more men to reach its previously authorized 375,000 quota, but since several thousand enlistments expire every month, about 5,000 men have first to be recruited every month before any increase can be recorded...
...streamlinable power plants. It will continue to be the only hope until another, possibly the Rolls-Royce Merlin (TIME, July 15), is put into production in a U. S. factory. Last week Allison's production was reputedly rising from a monthly rate of about 30 to its fall quota of 125. It still had a long way to go to its estimated production top, 500-600 a month. The Curtiss factory at Buffalo was meanwhile howling for Allisons for its P-4O pursuit ships, was understood to have 70 to 100 waiting for engines. Bell Aircraft, manufacturer...
...former it planned to lend $65,000,000 to buy 150,000 tons of rubber; to the latter $100,000,000 to acquire 75,000 tons of tin and other strategic metals. London reacted promptly to the new demand, the international tin cartel upped its export quota from 100 to 130% of standard (or at the rate of 271,661 tons a year), a new high; the rubber cartel from 80 to 85% (1,131,160 tons a year...
...Heber Jedediah Grant of the Mormon Church, are better politicians than economists. Via Senator Reed Smoot they were Washington insiders in the '20s, and via their dozen-odd Senators (most of whom double in silver) they are Washington insiders still. Their achievements: an increased tariff and a domestic quota system...
Every session of Congress is punctuated by the sniping of seven main sugar groups at each other and the public weal. As the balance of power has worked out since 1934, the Mountain beet lobby has grudgingly accepted something between a 1,342,000 and 1,584,000 ton quota. Another 4,700,000 has gone to the refiners of imported cane, allocated as follows: 2,000,000 tons to Cuba, whose cheap cane competes with domestic beet after paying a .9? tariff; the rest to four duty-free areas, the Philippines (nearly 1,000.000 tons), Puerto Rico...