Word: quota
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...authored (with the late Senator David Aiken Reed) the U.S.'s restrictive 1924 immigration law (superseded in 1952 by the McCarran-Walter Act), which limited all immigration to 2% per year of the foreign-born from each country in the U.S.'s 1890 population, set up a quota system (effective in 1930) to stem the inflow from Southern Europe and Asia; of a heart attack; in American Lake. Wash...
...pound operation would have been impossible without firm support from the U.S. Treasury, the wealthiest and most powerful of the fund's 60 members. But it involved no new out lay by the U.S.; Washington had already subscribed the money to the fund as part of its quota, just as Britain had subscribed $1.3 billion, and now the U.S. simply made the cash available. This way of helping Britain suited Treasury Secretary George Humphrey; he did not have to ask Congress for the money. The U.S. decision to use the fund as the main instru ment for supporting Britain...
...Nations Human Rights Day, President Eisenhower called upon the nation to "take to heart the lessons the Hungarian people have written in their blood ... in their indomitable will to be free." This came on the heels of his order establishing "Operation Safe Haven," a plan to bring the announced quota of 21,500 Hungarians (TIME, Dec. 10) to the U.S. by Jan. 1. Set into motion by the Defense Department, Safe Haven will carry 5,000 people aboard three oceangoing transports, about 10,000 aboard MATS and commercial planes. U.S. Labor Department officials aboard the three ships will process...
...launch "a fund-raising campaign for the contraction of Harvard University" with the desired quota set at a round 100,000 dollars, with the stipulation that if this fund reaches its quota before that of President Pusey, it shall be declared the winner and applied as the Society has seen fit, that...
...past few years the Cuban sugar surplus has dropped from 2,000,000 to less than 1,000,000 tons, and production has gone down in many sugar-producing countries. In a move to check the price rise, the Department of Agriculture last week increased the 1956 import quota for the eighth time this year...