Word: quotas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...skilled industrial workers) in a year. However, Brazil was ready to receive only 1,000 families by Oct. 1. Other Latin American countries were "exploring the possibility" of taking in refugees. In the U. S., richest of all the D.P.s' dreamlands, no serious effort to revise the narrow quota immigration system was being made...
...British, for the moment, were more interested in facts than in symbols; and one cogent fact was that Jewish immigration was running at 10,000 a month as against a quota of 1,500. Determined to stop this, the British sent powerful naval and air forces to stop and search any ships, under any flag, suspected of carrying illegal immigrants.* London announced that intercepted Jewish refugees would be held on Cyprus, where a mile-square camp, doubly enclosed by barbed wire, has been set up near Famagusta...
Bonney expects to receive five times the number of applications acceptable under quota restrictions, even though the quota's pre-war level of 200 has been raised to 296, and announced that of this number only 100 may be Freshmen...
...implications that the late Herr Goebbels presumably got out of that issue of TIME were no longer of strategic importance to last week's Berliners, who snatched up their quota (3,000 copies) in an hour. It was their first opportunity to buy an unofficial English language magazine in postwar Germany...
...will shortly name a committee of ten educators to set up the rules of eligibility for applicants, establish standards of selection, the amount of money each scholarship will be worth, and what subjects can be studied where. Veterans will be given preference and probably each state will have a quota...