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This has provoked angry predictions from London art experts that his masterpieces are in danger from the salt air. Niarchos brushes off this complaint: "On my yacht, sea air and water never reach the paintings. The rooms are air-conditioned, with temperature and humidity controls. Filters control the inflow of air, which is always pure, and smoke from cigarettes is immediately expelled by adequate installations...
...restrictive 1924 immigration law (superseded in 1952 by the McCarran-Walter Act), which limited all immigration to 2% per year of the foreign-born from each country in the U.S.'s 1890 population, set up a quota system (effective in 1930) to stem the inflow from Southern Europe and Asia; of a heart attack; in American Lake. Wash...
With Canadians taking over an evergrowing share of these relatively conservative investments, U.S. investors have tended in recent years to plunge on more speculative enterprises. The recent inflow of American capital has mainly gone into Canada's oil industry, mining and new manufacturing plants. But here too, the inexorable trend toward local ownership is already under way. In the past ten years, Canadian investors have increased their stock holdings in U.S.-controlled companies operating in Canada by more than...
...born, and they will tend, even at the present rate of interracial mating, to diffuse into the white population. The loss by "passing" of light-skinned individuals may leave the rest of the Negroes darker, on the average, than they are at present. On the other hand, an inflow of European genes may balance the loss and further dilute the Negro population...
Britain, which had to devalue its currency in 1949 to encourage the inflow of dollars, has decided that dollars are no longer needed so badly. Last fortnight the Bank of England put an end to a special inducement for foreign capital by cutting the discount rate (at which it lends money to private banks) from a relatively high 3½% to 3%. Last week West Germany's central bank followed suit. The effect was to reduce the interest that dollars (and other currencies) can earn by going abroad. At the same time, the cut meant lower interest rates...