Word: influxes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...down 8% from a year ago despite gains in March and April. But in the West, where a quarter of the nation's new housing is normally concentrated, the decline is much sharper because of earlier overbuilding, cutbacks in defense industries and a slight slowdown in the influx of new families. More than 50,000 completed houses remain unsold in California, according to Bank of America officials. Says Los Angeles Entrepreneur Jerome Snyder: "Builders in trouble here seem to be more the rule than the exception...
...influx swelled, and wives and families began to immigrate along with students and bachelors, Parliament passed the 1962 Commonwealth Immigration Act, which for the first time limited the free entry into Britain of Her Majesty's subjects from her outer domains. Even that did not stop it. Aided by loopholes in the law and a high birth rate, the number of nonwhites living in Britain since 1962 has doubled to what is darkly referred to as "the dark million." Nearly half (about 450,000) of them are West Indians, with the remainder about equally divided among Indians, Pakistanis...
...Those who do can expect fair treatment, even in many Communist countries. Everywhere, the troubled tourist's best friend is the U.S. consul, reachable from remote places by wiring "Amconsul" in the nearest large city. Today, the consul negotiates from strength-no one wants to discourage a mounting influx of U.S. tourist dollars...
Railroads ground to a halt at the height of the Holy week tourist influx - biggest since the war - as 185,000 workers walked out for 24 hours in protest against "clandestine" bonuses ($200 apiece) awarded to 2,800 white-collar types. Simultaneously, doctors in three of Italy's 30 medical unions struck, demanding higher wages and better working conditions in clinics. Then the opera went on strike, darkening stages just before performances of Strauss's Fledermaus in Rome, and Rossini's Moses at Milan's La Scala...
...this pattern of infiltration has not emerged in South Viet Nam, but to veterans of the last parallel, the threat was obvious. The immediate problem is one of cost-both in money and in terms of human endurance. At the present rate of influx, the U.S. and South Viet Nam must spend $12,500 a day merely to keep the newcomers in rice and nuoc nam, the rancid fish sauce that provides the Vietnamese with protein. Housing is so short that many of the refugees can find no quarters at all and must sleep in the open. Many others have...