Word: quotas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first lap of final exams drew to a close yesterday, Phillips Brooks House's Book Drive had only achieved 25 percent of its quota of 250 used texts, Alfred Pugliese '47, PBH librarian, reported last night...
Proposal of Marriage. Rank has still another ace in the hole. If Hollywood should not give him all he feels he is entitled to, the Board of Trade might conceivably cut the quota of U.S. pictures allowed in Britain (now a fat 80% of all pictures shown). At this prospect, Hollywood shudders. The U.S. movie industry last year made $75 million-at least 35% of its income and almost all of its profits-in the British market. Without that market, Hollywood could not afford to spend the millions it does on a single picture. For his part, Rank made only...
...over the high prices; it might be peevish over strikes or jittery about Communists. But the millions of Europe's war-ravaged continent had a more realistic view: America was still the great land of promise. In Greece, the U.S. embassy had enough applications to fill the immigration quota (307 a year) for 99 years...
...movie has its moments-a night stampede along a cliff, several brutal fights and killings, and a long, tense stalking sequence, with rifles, in a pitch-dark canyon. It also has more than its quota of good performances, notably by Wally Cassell, Donald Crisp, Don DeFore, Lloyd Bridges. Best of all, it is finely set and photographed (by Allan O'Dea and Russell Harlan) and carefully directed (by Miss Lake's husband, Andre de Toth...
Students wishing to give blood at MIT this week were urged last night by Donald M. Leavitt '50, chairman of the Phillips Brooks House Blood Donor Committee, to sign up at PBH today. Contributions will be counted on the Harvard quota and Freshmen will be given an athletic credit for their donations...