Word: quotas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bitter truth was out: recruiting for the WAC has been such a failure that officials last week admitted they were hopeless of filling their quota, figure they will be lucky to keep even a trickle of recruits coming in. War Department officials are afraid they may have got virtually all the women volunteers they ever will get. WAC aim for 1943 was an enrollment of 150.000. Present strength: a little over...
WAVES, who did just a little better than their quota, have also been getting a cold shoulder in recent months from U.S. women. SPARS and Marine Reserves reached their smaller goals some time ago. But in recent weeks their recruiting has also been hamstrung by the same vast apathy...
Miami. The thriving Herald (circulation up from 73,800 in 1941 to 103,000 this year) had failed to stick within its WPB paper quota. Result: even with an extra, 193-ton grant from WPB there was not enough paper to finish the year at normal rate of use. The Herald's drastic remedy: to eliminate all display advertising and to cut classified ad space in half. At least until year's end the Herald, usually 20 to 30 pages daily and 60 Sundays, will continue at a 12-page daily, 30-page Sunday clip...
...minuscule Chinese Exclusion Acts which have been an irritation and an insult to the Chinese for 61 years. Hereafter, the Chinese would be specially favored among Asiatics. Like Europeans, Chinese immigrants would be allowed: 1) to become naturalized citizens, 2) to enter the U.S. on a regular yearly quota basis (2% of the immigrant's nationals residing in the U.S. in 1890, which, in China's case, totals 105 a year). Passed along to a receptive Senate for approval, the repeal measure would counteract, to some extent, the waves of Jap propaganda-that the U.S. thinks...
...order to obtain the five gallons of gasoline established as the armed force leave quota, the registration number of the automobile used must be presented with the application. The certificate issued is so worded that the fuel allowance is to be used in this one car only...