Word: merchantable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...collection which bears Professor Schofield's name was the largest private library in Iceland, and was purchased directly from its former owner, Kristjan Kristjansson, a merchant of Reykjavik, who had spent many years gathering it. It contains works both of mediaeval and of modern literature but is particularly rich in the modern field...
...Benny Foulois rode his bicycle into New York from Washington, Conn. He wanted to join the Navy. Finding no Navy recruiting station, unable to get into the merchant marine, he enlisted in the Engineer Corps. He rose from the ranks, was a Signal Corps lieutenant in 1908. The first Army man to be taught to fly by Orville Wright, he was assigned to operate the Army's first plane, which he flew after 90 minutes of instruction. During the War he was chief of the A. E. F. air service...
...Nippon Yusen Kaisha, the Japanese Mail Steamship Co., largest, most luxurious operated by Asiatics. Bland, bespectacled, slightly plump, Mr. Kagami, an incessant smoker of U. S. cigarettes got his technical training in the Occident, sailed home to become an executive genius of Japan's No. 2 house of merchant princes, the Mitsubishi, which controls the N. Y. K. (No. 1 is the House of Mitsui...
Samuel Wilson came to Troy from New Hampshire. Brickmaker, distiller, farmer, merchant, meat packer, he waxed rich. Everybody called him Uncle Sam Wilson. When the War of 1812 began one Elbert Anderson got a contract to provision U. S. troops. Anderson arranged with Wilson to secure and pack pork and beef for the army. On the casks and barrels Wilson had written E. A.U. S., meaning from Contractor Anderson to the United States. Visitors saw the containers thus labelled on a wharf for shipment to Newburgh and Greenbush, asked the watchman what the initials stood for. He declared...
...could logically be transferred to the Secretary of Transportation would include the Alaska R. R. (from Interior Department), civil aeronautics, steamboat inspection, lighthouses and navigation (from the Commerce Department), river and harbor development, the Mississippi barge line and the Panama Canal (from the War Depart-ment), the U. S. merchant fleet (from the Shipping Board...