Word: merchantable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week's deal with Consumer Distribution Corp. was a feather in the cap of philanthropic Merchant Filene, who since 1909 has been preaching the gospel of co-operative retail merchandising, financing co-ops through the uncooperative profits from Filene's Department Store. Consumer Distribution Corp. is the first enterprise of a new $1,000,000, Filene-financed corporation formed a year and a half ago to establish a nation-wide league of U. S. cooperatives. It will run Greenbelt's general store, food and meat market, drugstore, cinemansion, barber shop, garage and milk route. Prices will...
...moribund since Dr. Tugwell resigned last winter, was at last officially dead. The other was that Greenbelt was at last ready for occupancy and that, when its first tenants move in about Oct. 1, all Greenbelt's commercial enterprises will be run by a branch of Boston Merchant Edward A. Filene's Consumer Distribution Corp...
...International protection for merchant ships sticking to these trade routes...
...Concerted international action against any submarines, ships or airplanes attacking merchant men in the protected areas...
Many a British Friend is also a merchant for a century ago Quakers were forbidden by law to attend British universities were thus barred from most professions. Friends founded Barclays...