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Until the quota is filled, applications will be accepted from men who will have finished two years of college by the end of this semester. Following induction, they will receive 16 weeks of cadet training and eight months of basic flight training before receiving their commissions...
...Melbourne Herald, spent several years during the last war flying with the Royal Air Force and publicizing the air crews. Commenting on Australia's immigration restrictions against non-whites, Tipping said that political action is never taken on the problem because every Australian government in power always supports the quota system...
...agreement at the last Atlantic Pact conference, Germans will command at operational levels, but they will not receive appointment to the General Staff. At least the Allies have agreed upon the structure and size of German rearmament, but there is another hurdle. If voluntary enlistments fail to satisfy the quota, they will have to be supplemented by some form of conscription. To draft, the Bonn government would have to alter its constitution, incurring a possible cabinet change...
Neither school uses a quota system, geographical or other, but both seem to wind up with good representation and with a national student body. Of course, the relative size of the student bodies directly affects a student's chances for admission. On the average, Yale admits at out a sixth of those applying while Harvard takes between a third and a half...
Rotation in Korea and the release of reserves were pulling men out of the services faster than they could be replaced. Last week, to make up the deficit, the Defense Department sent out a hurry call to the draft for 41,000 men in October (double the monthly quota this summer), marked 6,000 of them for the Marine Corps, which for the first time in its history could not fill enlistment quotas...