Word: quotas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Estonia's annual quota of 116 immigrants was already filled and there was a long waiting list. Captain Rull and his pilgrims must wait in their warehouse while lawyers appealed to Washington on the grounds of "humanity and public opinion." The law was tightly drawn, designed to be narrowly construed. It would be hard to find a loophole...
...bleak uplands of Al Capp's pan-Slobbic Utopia were tense with expectation last week. It was the day most eagerly awaited by Lower Slobbovians-G.O.S.* Day, when one lucky citizen is named to fill the U.S. immigration quota of one Slobbovian per hundred years...
...granted a similar quota and has promised faithfully to supply the exact number required, according to Miss Jean McCouch of the dance committee at Wellesley, although some speculation has arisen as to how the rowdy slide-rule swingers from down the river can be limited to the designated amount...
Yesterday's Harvard-Radcliffe Tea was attended by new men whose last initial was A through G. Using the alphabetical system of dividing men for the remaining Teas, Brooks House will welcome the H through M quota on Wednesday afternoon and the N through Z quota on Friday afternoon. Radcliffe is invited to both occasions, which will begin at 3:30 and end at 5:30 o'clock...
Feminine across-the-Common neighbors will return to Brooks House to participate in similar teas on Wednesday afternoon with new men whose last initials are H through M and on Friday afternoon for the N through Z quota...