Word: quota
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Debated national origins, with Pennsylvania's Reed blocking a vote to suspend this immigration quota system...
...With the quota for the first year class set at 600 students, applications for entrance to the Harvard School of Business Administration have already reached a total of 570 with more coming in continually. The number of applications received before May 1 this year exceeds by over 60 percent the figure for the corresponding period last year...
...season the quota of 400 for the first-year class was reached and a limit of 500 was set for this year and was exceeded by 22. This year also saw the number of Harvard graduates registered in the first-year class jump from about...
Almost every Paris newspaper except those owned by Perfumer-Publisher Coty has been urging for months that a one-for-three quota be imposed, instead of the present one-for-seven arrangement which U. S. Cinema Tsar Will H. Hays secured on his famed visit to Paris (TIME, May 14), but which expires next September...
Five Million. More cars were made because of Ford's return to full-volume capacity after the scrapping of famed Model T; because of Chevrolet's ambition to reach its 1929 quota which, starting at 1,250,000 has been raised to 1,350,000; because of furious competition in the under-$1,000 field; and because of prevailing U. S. prosperity. Production of 1,500,000 cars in the first three months of 1929 of course does not mean that the year will reach a 6,000,000 total, but that it should pass...