Word: quotas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That assurance meant that correspondents must keep their eyes on the conference-and not go peeking down side alleys. Even so, 73 reporters, photographers and radiomen got set to sail or fly (round trip fare, $1,084) to Moscow. Then the Russians suddenly set a U.S. quota of only 20 (blaming it on the housing shortage). Last week the press was howling mad. In Washington a committee of correspondents spent three days trying to whittle down the press party, finally sent a priority list of 52 to State Secretary George Marshall with a strong protest against the "shockingly inadequate" quota...
...tentative quota was also set by Watt's group for the three boards of the Advocate--ten for the literary, ten for the business, and four for the art board. Watt made it clear, however, that these numbers were not permanent and only represented what he felt the magazine could handle in its early stages...
...course colleges could avoid the tax by booting out enough of those students not so fortunate as to be residents of Massachusetts and putting further admissions on a strict quota basis. The bill was designed to encourage precisely this action. Its framers feel that local boys and girls are being denied their fair share of the state's admittedly outstanding educational opportunities. Failing to attain its primary intent, the bill would secure to the state a few millions of additional revenue as consolation for its flouted sovereignty...
Evidence of the small quota of winter sicknesses are the Stillman lists, Professor Bock claimed, which show, on a typical day only 17 men at the Infirmary, five in hospitals, and 11 resting at home, and which show few of the usual respiratory diseases...
Illustrated Lecture. In San Jose, Calif., Detective Captain Raymond Blackmore, addressing the Quota Club on "Crime Detection," glanced out the window, saw a man wanted by police, hustled out and nabbed...