Word: merchantable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...singing and her extremely attractive manner in the part. This wench of low estate, nee Eliza Bowen of Providence, Rhode Island, believes a woman can achieve anything she wishes if only she marry the right man. Successively she become an actress, the wife of a prominent American merchant, Stephan Jumel, and finally Mrs. Aaron Burr; throughout all this she keeps a rabid fan of Napoleon on her mind and in her heart...
Finding interviewers more disposed to talk of lifeboats than of books, he spun the yarn behind his whittled model. Invented 20 years ago by his Aunt Maggie's boy, Ivan Fleming, a British naval officer, the Fleming hand-propelled aluminum alloy lifeboat is now in use on 75 merchant ships, including the Nieuw Amsterdam, the Conte di Savoia, the Monarch of Bermuda, Queen of Bermuda, the Stockholm, but not on any U. S. liner...
...resubsidization of U. S. shipping under the Merchant Marine Act of 1936, the Maritime Commission has this year granted operating subsidies totaling $13,500,000 to 13 lines, is itself operating some 50 small cargo ships and a three-ship luxury line, the Good Neighbor Fleet, to South America...
...Raymond Henry Fogler, 46, quiet, serious, hard-working vice president in charge of operations, whom Mr. Avery hired away from W. T. Grant Co. in 1932. Born on a Maine farm and educated in a one-room schoolhouse before he went to the University of Maine and Princeton, studious Merchant Fogler has been at Sewell Avery's right hand throughout the Ward renascence. Although Mr. Avery, who has the step and manner of a man of 50, will presumably continue dictating Montgomery Ward's policies, he last year began retiring from active business life when he quit...
...Maru means circle, is traditionally suffixed to the names of Japanese merchant ships for .good luck. Only Japanese merchant line in scheduled transatlantic commerce is the round-the-world Osaka Shosen Kabushiki Kaisha, which at the time of the Pioneer's, plight had no ship in her vicinity. Best guess was that the offender was one of innumerable tramps that make Japan the world's third largest shipping nation...