Word: cheap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...free entry into the U. S., passed (51-to-16) a bill slapping a national origins quota upon Mexican immigration. Recent unemployment had given sharp political point to the long-standing complaints of organized labor that Mexicans were driving its members out of jobs. Dismayed were large employers of cheap labor in the South-west who count on these aliens to work their fields, repair their tracks, do their meanest chores. By quota Mexican immigration would be cut from 56,000 to about 1,700 per year...
Nest egg of the foundation is Professor Harry Steenbock's patents on irradiated foods. At the university he discovered a cheap method of developing vitamin D, which protects babies against rickets, in food by treating the comestibles with ultraviolet light. A dozen U. S. food manufacturers now use his process, and pay - because he refused to let business hamper his research work-royalties to the research foundation...
This country's mania for stock speculation seems to have subsided for the time being at least. The stuation at present with money extremely cheap and security prices staying at about the same level would seem to indicate that the speculative element is going to wait for actual improvement in business conditions before giving any substantial support to the market...
...from his law clients, since Jan. 1 fugitive under false names (John Thomas Boyd, Eric Hauser); of alcoholism and pneumonia; in Mexico City. Accompanied by a lively brunette known as his sister, he arrived in Mexico during January, stayed at the best hotels, spent lavishly, moved to cheap quarters, stayed drunk his last three weeks alive...
...Cheap quick lunch emporium, usually greasy and smelly; frequently called a "greasy spoon...