Word: quota
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...found no welcome in Cuba, where aliens (except for a few technicians) are not allowed to work, and naturalization takes five years. Unable to leave or support themselves, they wrote frantic letters to friends and relatives in the U.S., besieged the U.S. consul for a place on the quota (the best they can hope for is a five years' wait), entered into hundreds of deals for spurious visas and fake Cuban citizenship papers. They moved from one shoddy rooming house to another, ate black beans and rice at corner kiosks and fly-ridden restaurants, endlessly cadged and figured...
Voluntary enlistments and re-enlistments are currently coming in at the rate of 35,000 a month. If this flow keeps up, the Army will easily stay at its quota without issuing any draft calls, the CRIMSON learned...
Garfield and Polonsky, who worked together on the successful Body and Soul, deal with an awesome quota of evil in Force of Evil, but the lame techniques that are tried in the film take away most of its force...
...Army has already announced that it would draft no men in February and March. Secretary Kenneth C. Royall explained that recruits and re-enlistments have filled the quota...
Traffic swirled around the Plaza Bolivar; Christmas shopping was off only slightly. The Venezuelan idol, Luis Sánchez ("El Diamante Negro"), dispatched his quota of bulls in the Nuevo Circo bull ring, the horses made their customary circuits of the Hipódromo race track, and I've Always Loved You played to full houses at the Lido Theater...