Word: merchantable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Polish Jew claims to be the greatest linguist in the world because, in order to suceed in business in that polyglot section of the world around the northwest corner of old Germany, the merchant had to speak at least six languages. The Dutch rate high as linguists merely because, being surrounded by five different nations using different tongues, and depending upon them for commercial success, the Hollander is compelled to speak English. German, and French, and to understand Danes, Swedes, and Norwegians. The Swiss merchant must do business in French. English, German, and Italian and does. The Dutchman in Ceylon...
...millions. He had fastened a prodigious habit upon his countrymen, who today drink 7,000,000 little brown glasses every 24 hours in response to $5,000,000 per annum of advertising. And so a miracle had happened in Georgia. An aristocrat, a South-ener, had beaten modern industry. "Merchant Prince of the South," they called him; "First Citizen of Atlanta." He accepted his honors gravely. Why should he have been flustered ? He was not a nouveau; his was no rags-to-riches story but the far rarer reversal by which blood wins back, in a world of commerce...
...successful in business, and especially in the merchant marine business, should start to work at 16 and not at 24, as most college graduates do," said Captain Robert Dollar, owner of the Dollar Line and the original of Peter B. Kyne's "Cappy Ricks", in an interview yesterday...
...college education makes a man unwilling to begin at the bottom and unwilling to begin at the bottom and work up after he has graduated, and that is the only way in which to become a really good business man. In the merchant marine, a man of 24 should be able to hold a responsible position and should not have to begin at that age. This is equally true in any other occupation, so that college really robs a man of four or five of the best years of his life. It is a mistaken idea that education will ever...
...found that the thing that bothered me most in China was the terrific heat The officials were all very courteous to me, and seemed to have a good opinion of Americans in general. Commercial trade and the merchant marine are all flourishing despite the war of which I personally saw no evidences China and the Pacific trade at present offer a promising future to the American business...