Word: merchantable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sharp distinction should be made between the carrier and the "newsie." The newsie, an "independent merchant," hawks his papers at all hours on the street, is subject to physical and moral evil. States and municipalities could oversee him. but hardly any city does an effective job of it. The carrier of morning papers is also a problem, when he is a 10-year-old, getting out of bed at 3 a.m. to serve his route. In contrast, there is little to be said against boys acting as carriers of afternoon papers in residential districts, and much in favor...
...Sutherland served as ship's doctor on board the Empress of Britain, commissioned as an armed merchant-cruiser, served at other posts on sea and ashore. One night standing with the skipper on the bridge of a new destroyer, taking her speed trials in a full gale, he saw something bob past on the crest of a wave. "It had a lifebelt round its body, the face was that of a skeleton, but the scalp was intact and the sodden tresses of hair were black and very long...
...Quartier Latin of wall board and in one of the concessions they established a life class model, better looking than most, who supplied an eyeful to non-professional guests at $1 a head. The venture was such a success that famed John Wellborn Root and other architects got Merchant George Lytton and others to put up a guarantee fund with which to build the $250,000 Streets of Paris on the World's Fair's Midway. A good part of the U. S. public has now heard about the Streets of Paris. Some 800,000 sightseers have already...
Trade Routes. Pan American regards itself as the U. S. merchant marine of the air. By agreement with domestic transport operators it stays outside the U. S. proper while they stay in. Pan American goes where foreign trade is, or where it can be developed. It carries the sample case, the estimate pad, the order book, the spare part. It gets heavy patronage from U. S. merchants in Brazil and Argentina, where Germany and France formerly enjoyed an enormous advantage by virtue of their seven-day shipments of merchandise and documents from Berlin and Paris, a schedule now equalled...
...them, earned barely enough to eat. Years later Dickens, out of the bitterness of his own heart, wrote the horrors of child exploitation into his stories of Oliver Twist, undertaker's apprentice and thief, and of David Copperfield who toiled long'and dismally for a London wine merchant. All England was shocked and startled by Dickens' tut ionized propaganda. Resentment was quickly followed by reform. The U. S. had no great novelist to dramatize the curse of childhood.* But it did have Florence Kelley. Florence Kelley was born in Philadelphia in 1859, an Irish Quaker. Her father...