Word: merchantable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...explosion aboard the tanker set it afire while being towed by the Soviet in the Caspian Sea. Promptly Captain Krivonosov of the Soviet conferred with his political adviser, the Communist Party official assigned to most Soviet merchant ships. This worthy, Comrade Miguschenko, agreed that even with $7,000 worth of Government oil at stake, the danger of a major explosion aboard the tanker which would flood the sea with blazing oil and perhaps destroy the S. S. Soviet was too great to risk. The only thing to do, the Captain decided, was to cut the tow rope...
Karl M. Davies, 18, of 4304 South Lyndale avenue, Minneapolis, Minn.; Washburn High School; son of Ralph M. Davies, grain commission merchant; ranked first among boys in his class; editor of school annual, and leader in other school activities...
Even prouder was Merchant Kress last week to know that his name was on the tongue of the entire art world. One purchase of $250,000 had lifted his little known collection of Italian paintings to front-rank eminence. For that sum Mr. Kress had just bought from Clarence Hungerford Mackay one of the four paintings by Duccio di Buoninsegna in the U. S. Art dealers throughout the country agreed that the 5-10-25? storeman had got a bargain...
...record-breaking maiden voyage (TIME, June 10). They walked off the Champlain at Havre last week and for two days most of her 670 passengers were fed and bedded in Havre hotels at French Line expense. Meanwhile the men's leaders wrangled in Paris with Minister of Merchant Marine William Bertrand, saddest man on the Normandie's maiden voyage.* Since employees of the French Line are paid largely by State subsidy, M. Bertrand insisted last week that they must take the 10% wage cut State servants must take. But this sternness M. Bertrand followed by a question. Would...
...Because the Flandin Cabinet fell while he was at sea and a rival politician on the spot in Paris copped his job of Minister of Merchant Marine in the new Laval Cabinet. Friends on the Normandie warned M. Bertrand that this would happen, urged him to call up M. Laval by radio telephone. ''That is not done!" exploded French M. Bertrand. "I cannot remind the President of the Council that I exist, by telephone...