Word: merchantable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last February, Alaskan Delegate Anthony J. Dimond* informed the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee: "I am gravely apprehensive . . . that there will be armed conflict in the Bering Sea." Concerned not so much for its nationals as for U. S.-Japanese relations, Tokyo's Foreign Office promised that Japanese vessels would leave salmon alone, would net crabs only beyond the three-mile limit...
VALENCIA--Three members of the crew of the British merchant ship Penchames were wounded seriously today when the vessel was bombed during an insurgent air raid on Valencia. The decks of the British ship were damaged badly by the Insurgent bombs...
Edgar Zodiag Friedenberg, 17, is the youngest person ever to appear on a convention program of the American Chemical Society. He is also the brashest. A precocious, articulate young man with an active mind and critical spirit, son of a retired Louisiana merchant, Edgar will graduate this June, loaded with honors, from Centenary College (Shreveport, La.), expects to start graduate study next fall at Stanford. In his 17 years Edgar Friedenberg has been much annoyed by scientific jargon. Last week he addressed the conference on chemical education during the society's spring meeting at Dallas. Far from displaying stage...
...bottom of it all is that the men and women willing to work can have a decent job, a decent job to take care of themselves and their homes and their children adequately; that the farmer, the factory worker, the storekeeper, the gas station man, the manufacturer, the merchant-big and small-the banker who takes pride in the help that he can give to the building of his community-that all these can be sure of a reasonable profit and safety for the earnings that they make-not today nor tomorrow alone, but as far ahead as they...
Born Barney Isaacs in London's Whitechapel, Barnato became a juggler, comedian, boxer, diamond merchant and eventually financial master of the South African mining fields. He was first a rival and then an ally of the imperious, imperialistic Cecil Rhodes. Author Lewinsohn's account makes Barnato out a kindly, comical, shrewd, enterprising fellow whose great achievement was amalgamating scattered mines and who was overshadowed as soon as Rhodes appeared with his bold political adventures and schemes for establishing a diamond monopoly. Sometimes Barnato's democratic traits popped out unexpectedly (when a society lady asked...