Word: merchantable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Splitting the foam-flecked blue waters of the Mediterranean the S. S. Rex, pride of Italy's rejuvenated merchant marine. last week completed her engine trials in triumph. One of the two biggest ships built since the War (51,000 tons), the Rex tore over her 600-mi. course at an average speed of 28 knots, became unofficially "the world's fastest liner."* At times her 125,,000 h. p. turbines drove her bulb-stemmed hull 29 knots. With her smaller sister the S. S. Conte di Savoia, she is Il Duce's supreme bid for traffic...
...other Democrats (Carter Glass and Kenneth McKellar) are in line ahead of him for the chair should the Senate go Democratic. On the Commerce Committee three Democrats. all his juniors, outrank him. At the last session his principal activity was government aid for cattle tick eradication and a merchant marine school at New Orleans...
...their work cut out for them. The Foreign Trading Corp., financed at $50,000,000, must win Chile's commerce away from the foreign capitalists "who failed us in our hour of need," according to the government bulletin. Whether the $50.000,000 includes the creation of a Chilean merchant marine to compete with U. S. lines, the Davila Plan...
...Camden, N. J., Merchant William E., Cross lost $75, advertised his loss, received the following unsigned letter from an unemployed man: "I have found your money, but I expect to keep it until I get a break. ... I am going to borrow the money until I get back to work again, then I will repay you with interest...
Married. Marjorie Montgomery Ward, daughter and heiress of the late founder of Montgomery Ward & Co.; and Robert R. Baker, onetime Chicago coal merchant; in Philadelphia...