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...Story. Bertha was a big, blonde, Baltic lummox; one of those inarticulate girls; a strong, hardworking, silent, lonely servant?apparently impassive?regarded by mistress after mistress as just a good plain cook?yet possessed of a certain dumb, unconscious power of understanding. She passed through the lives of many other people, and, somehow, altered them...
...creator of a big, blonde, Baltic lummox...
Just as the active bird catches the early worm, so the Government has apparently caught the Baltic-American, Ward, Fabre and Greek steamship lines. Each of these is owner of a ship which came into the U. S. territorial waters from six minutes to 15 seconds before Sept. 1. As a result the immigrants aboard the four ships arrived after the August quotas were filled and too "early" for September quotas (TIME, Sept...
...immigrants. With 1,800 immigrants involved, the fines aggregated over half a million dollars. The lines, of course, protested, to no avail. Since the transgressing ships could not get clearance papers unless a large deposit were paid against the forthcoming fines, the lines had little choice. The Baltic-American line was the first to pay, depositing under protest $100,000 in order that the Estonia (which arrived 15 seconds early) might sail...
Soviet officials announce that Russia will be able to export grain on the world market through the Black Sea, and to a certain extent through the Baltic ports. Prices will be based on American wheat prices. The estimated value will be 6,300,000 gold rubles ($3,150,000), indicating an export of at least 3,000,000 bushels. Pravda, Communist journal gloomily announces that another famine is impending...