Word: merchantable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ship Subsidy, substituting a forthright system of direct subsidies to shippers for the current indirect and unsavory system of padded ocean-mail contracts. To expand the U. S. merchant marine, the Government will pay up to half the cost of building a ship, lend the operator half of the remainder, pay him an operating subsidy based on the difference between U. S. and foreign costs...
Paris department stores finally reopened to do boom business this week after an all-night arbitration conference. In Marseille 4,000 sailors suddenly "folded arms" on French merchant ships in the harbor, sang Communist songs, defied their officers. Sporadic in Paris, Amiens and other French cities were the first Fascist outbursts, participants massing, marching, waving the French flag, shouting "Down with the Jew! Down with Moscow...
...those of the 20th century who think that a Harvard Commencement in the 18th century must have been a very dull and colorless affair, I should like to submit the following notes. The first is from the diary of John Rowe, Boston Merchant, for whom the present Rowe's Wharf in Boston was named. July...
...money back of such generous art patronage was made by James Duval Phelan's father, who came to the U. S. from Queen's County, Ireland, sailed for California in the Gold Rush of '49, accumulated $10,000,000 as merchant, banker, real estate tycoon. Son James never cared for business, was nevertheless one of San Francisco's first citizens. At the height of the 1906 Fire, intrepid James Phelan filled his snorting, blunt-snouted Mercedes with dynamite, gallantly chugged out to the Potrero district, blasted a path that halted the fire at Van Ness Avenue...
...late Marshal Pilsudski created the Polish merchant marine in 1930 by buying Denmark's Baltic America Line, renaming it the Gdynia-America Line, consolidating all lines under one central management, subsidized if necessary by the Government. One Polish specialty is taking U. S. Jews by ship to Gdynia, by train to the Black Sea port of Constantsa (Rumania), by Polish ship again to Palestine Three old liners, Kosciuszko, Pulaski and Polonia, have been put on the Constantsa-Haifa and South American routes, leaving the North Atlantic to the Pilsudski and Batory...