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...gorges of the Danube broke up last fortnight and floated down toward the Black Sea. Last week upriver traffic started, and among the first to move were 30 barges carrying 18,000 tons of Rumanian oil to Germany-about one-seventh of that blockaded country's monthly oil quota from Europe's prime economic battleground...
...industry had raised $600,000 of an allotted $1,000,000 quota; U. S. labor had given...
...Russia used 2,583 of its quota of 2,712 visas; Finland...
...least done something. The U. S. people up to last week's end had shown no inclination to do anything for the world's refugees except read about them. If the U. S. did want to do something, obvious step would be for Congress to amend the quota law. Obvious amendments would temporarily reduce favored Great Britain's unfilled allotment, write off uninterested Yap, Bhutan etc., up the quotas for Germany, Poland, etc., without necessarily increasing the total immigrant quota...
...Quotas are figured by a complex formula entailing two assumptions: 1) that the U. S. wants only about 150,000 immigrants each year; 2) that the 1920 ratio of "persons of foreign origin" from each country to the total of U. S. residents should be kept about as is. Some countries (Canada, Mexico, Cuba, etc.) and classifications (students, tourists, businessmen, etc.) are exempt from quota classifications. Total of nonquota visitors last fiscal year...