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...preference quota immigration applicants unless each can convincingly refute the presumption that upon arrival in the U. S. he will join the jobless and become dependent upon charity. (If the applicant says he has a job promised him, he is automatically barred by the law's "contract labor" restriction.) Application of the "public charge" clause to Mexican immigration has already reduced alien labor entries from that country from an annual average of 56,747 to 6,280. The same method has been used to cut less drastically Canadian labor immigration. ¶ To a $3,000,000 hurricane relief loan...
...soon as this deal became known, Western Union reported that it was completing arrangements with Shell Eastern to install slot telephones in Shell's stations, enable customers to deal directly with the telegraph company. This contract involves 320 filling stations. Other Shell subsidiaries may soon raise the total to around 1,300. Negotiations are also reported between Western Union and Richfield, Sinclair, Cities Service. New England filling stations, not the telegraph companies, are supposed to have originated the telegram service idea, which follows closely on the now widespread policy of selling tires in gas stations...
...travels through cosmic dust, its radiation varies. Earth's bombardment of electrons comes from the sun, travels along the lines of the earth's magnetic field. Striking in the magnetic polar regions, these electrons maintain the negative electric charge. Variations in electric charge cause atoms to expand, contract, result in a pulsation of the earth. Earthquakes, volcanoes, are evidences of pulsation...
...York Giants: a doubleheader with Boston, 12 to 1 and 7 to 2, thereby crowding St. Louis for second place in the pennant race. Two days earlier John J. McGraw, famed manager who has bossed the Giants for 27 years, signed a contract ($50,000) for five years more, dispelling rumors that he was about to go with some American League club...
...activities in law and the railroad business did not interfere with his more ardent interests. He became famous as one of the best auction-bridge players in the world, gave his name to a convention of bidding (TIME, Sept. 30), and is largely responsible for the present vogue of contract bridge. When automobiling was a sport he had the fastest car in Newport; when planes became practical he had the most elaborate one in the U. S. One day he left his yacht during a New York Yacht Club cruise, flew from Newport to Southampton to play 18 holes...