Word: quota
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...remaining unexplored parts of the world is a long-standing blank spot on the map of Alaska. Thanks to the mass of air photographs and data brought back by the Harvard University-National Geographic Society Alaska Expedition even this spot will not be filled with its quota of geographical features...
Professor Chafee recommended economic pressure on Germany to allow Jews to emigrate without being stripped of all their property, and said that our immigration quota should be enlarged. In conclusion he stated, "Whenever we meet intolerance in conversation, let's fight it; whenever we meet it in our own hearts, let's fight...
...mess jacket. By the time this error has had its inevitable consequences, small Sabu is back on the throne where he belongs, and U. S. audiences, if they feel faintly cheated because there has not been any scalping, will at least have been rewarded by a full quota of parades, whiskey drinking, bagpipe music, sword dancing, gunplay in the palace courtyard and fine, old-fashioned British slang...
...Secretary Hull's speeches against autarchy (TIME, Aug. 29), had declined to negotiate with U. S. Director George Rublee of the Intergovernmental Refugee Bureau. In Berlin, applications by German and Austrian Jews for admission to the U. S. still swamped the U. S. Embassy. The quota is 27,370 per annum. Jews can take only 8% of their wealth out of Germany. Until the President and Mr. Hull sounded off, they had hoped that Director Rublee and his negotiators could up this...
Based on an original story by Emerson Hough (The Covered Wagon), rigged out with a full quota of blizzards, prairie fires, stampedes, cowboys, carpetbaggers and Comanche Indians, The Texans contains more than enough action for a grand scale brush country epic. That it fails to emerge...