Word: merchantable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Merchant Marine, "We have a large number of ships engaged in that service. We also have a surplus supply, costly to care for, which ought to be sold. . . . The fleet should be under the direct control of a single executive head, while the Shipping Board should exercise its judicial and regulatory functions in accordance with its original conception...
Jean Frenchman rushed to his favorite wine merchant, to his tobacconist, to his butcher, baker, candlestick maker. Hastily, he laid in a supply of articles about to become vastly more expensive. Then, clutching his remaining franc notes, he sought out the sellers of foreign bonds and securities...
There is nothing wrong seemingly with most lines of business or with the credit structure which sustains them. The advance in Reserve rates (TIME, Dec. 7) has so far exerted no appreciable effect on merchant or manufacturer, except to worry and puzzle him temporarily by the unexpected manner in which they were inaugurated...
...leisure moments the late King dabbled, like many another monarch, in the arts. Two plays of famed poet William Shakespeare first appeared in Siamese over his name as translator. They were Romeo and Juliet and The Merchant of Venice...
...finishing college, Trumbull devoted three years to study for the ministry: but the loss of an uncle at sea just, when Jonathan was about to accept his first call, and the needs of his father's growing mercantile business, changed his choice of profession and he became a farmer-merchant...