Word: quotas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...December. While the Boston area is only allowed 150, Lt. Commander J.E. Fraher, Recruiting Officer at the Boston Navy Yard stated that he would continue to accept applications until the Navy Department told him to stop. Since the Boston district is so easy to fill it is likely his quota will be boosted...
...would drop like ripe fruit. Japanese farmers already have a strong foothold in the archipelago, and Philippine independence would mean the end of a U. S. market which has absorbed 85% of Philippine products. Recently Quezon had his Assembly pass an immigration law, aimed at Japanese infiltration, limiting the quota of every country to 500 a year. Commenting on this law, a Japanese Foreign Office spokesman said silkily: "It is our intention to make the Philippines understand our just position and take measures accordingly...
...tell all that is going on in Washington at the Congressional hearings on the draft bill? Why not disclose that Army leaders admit they have been getting more than their quota on a voluntary three-year enlistment and have a waiting list? Why not tell that the compromise suggests instead the proposal to give young men a chance to volunteer on a one-year basis at $30 a month instead of the present $21 and three-year enlistment? Why not bring out that the Gallup Poll, which you use as an argument for conscription, did not get the poll...
...death to Bolivia, constitutes 70% of her exports. Yet the Bolivian mines, thanks to depression and years of mining by their absentee landlord, are run down. Controlling more than half the production, Patino has also managed to restrict the rest. Not for ten years has Bolivia produced the full quota set for her by the British-controlled cartel. Last year Bolivia mined 27,000 tons of ore. To reach an estimated potential of 50,000 tons, the Bolivian mines need back maintenance, new machinery, more labor...
...born looking for a fight. Limited to 20% of Navy personnel, the Marine Corps's strength was recently raised from 25,000 men to 34,000. Last week its roster was full. The Navy, with only 53,000 recruits to go to fill its authorized quota of 193,000, was in no hurry to get them, figured that next March would be time enough to complete its full fighting strength. Reasons for the superior drawing power of the Navy over the Army were better pay, more chance to see the world. A leatherneck recruiting officer put it another...