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...warships (including landing craft), 5,200 merchant vessels...
...players, won't find Yale's Howie Odell on the opposite bench this fall, but he will wave a cigar to Earl Brown, the football and basketball coach Harvard lost to Dartmouth two years ago. It's Lieutenant (jg) Brown. USMS. now, and he's leading the Kings Point Merchant Marine Academy, the Merchant Marine's equivalent of West Point and Annapolis, into its first year of big-time football. Harvard plays the Academy November...
...London had a foreign king, a nourishing stock exchange, a wealthy merchant class, and a war with France. All four sorely needed a bank. Harassed, Holland-born King William III of Orange, whose war-financing was down to the level of the nation's hock shops, asked a willing Parliament to approve the establishment of a Bank of England. Soon after, a corporation was formed and ?1,200,000 raised by public subscription. With 19 employes, and a dim consciousness of its mission, the bank opened for business in Mercers' Chapel. In 1734 it moved to a building...
...mother, always a widow, is tormented by the village squire, who plays the joint role of Penelope's suitors. The hero meets a stranger and rescues his child from drowning (or from a mad dog or a runaway horse). The stranger turns out to be a rich merchant, who gives the boy new clothes, then sends him on a mission, a sort of knightly quest. On his triumphant return, the merchant adopts him as a son or ward, discomfits the wicked suitor and settles a little fortune on the hero. Moralists used to complain that this fortune was gained...
Struggling Upward, which gives its name to the present volume, is the absolute dead mean and average of all the Alger books. It contains his stock characters, settings and incidents, leading to his stock conclusion. "You need be under no anxiety about Luke and his prospects," says the rich merchant to the hero's widowed mother. "I shall make over to him $10,000 at once, constituting myself his guardian, and will see that he is well started in business...