Word: quotas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Remedies. There was no mistaking the urgency in Washington, but the remedies applied to date have been inadequate. Month ago, WPA upped its Puerto Rican quota from 18,000 to 25,000. But this was just a drop in the bucket: unemployment has risen to 322,000, almost half the island's employables. The war Shipping Administration's promise of 30,000 tons of shipping space a month was coupled with the admission that this "practically cuts the island off from shipping commerce." (In normal times, .shipping averaged four times as much.) Most help came from the Agricultural...
...Senior class, out of a quota of 203, there are 62 positions still available in the Enlisted Reserve Corps. The Junior class with a quota of 227 may apply for 57 remaining vacancies. A quota of 322 has been made available for the Sophomore class, of which 117 positions are still open...
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...offer an equal opportunity for the largest Freshman class in the history of the College, the War Department has assigned a quota of 442 to the class of 1946. With 177 of these positions filled, 160 of them by members of the Army R.O.T.C., 265 enlistments are still available for those who wish to join...
Since all military R.O.T.C. men are required to join the Army Enlisted Reserve, this considerably reduces the number of positions available to students who do not take the course. Of the Sophomore quota of 322, 140 automatically go to members of the College military unit. Eighty are claimed by R.O.T.C. members of the Junior class, while 70 are taken by the class...