Word: quotas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most astonishing fact was that only 38% (58,853) of last fiscal year's immigrant quota was filled. According to the State Department's travel...
...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...
With 98% of legal production signed up, the first week's quota was set at 960,000 tons. It was slightly underproduced. A break in the cold spell sliced the second week's quota to 480,000 tons. Producers filled their quotas and shut down. Returning cold weather upped last week's quota to 720,000 tons. Again producers toed the mark...