Word: merchanted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Turkey sought after by Germany, France and England, as a powerful Near Eastern ally. His Government doubled the country's railroad mileage, started sugar and textile factories, coal and iron industries to make Turkey more self-sufficient. He ordered electrification and reforestation programs and began to build a merchant marine. His policy of "Turkey for the Turks'' largely eliminated the foreign capital, dominant during the Sultans' time...
Ambassador Kennedy, who went to London straight from his Washington job of striving to build up a modern U. S. merchant marine (viewed in Britain as unwelcome competition), tartly told the Navy League: "We try to understand your need for a great merchant fleet. We hope you will try to understand our need for a small...
Even admirers of the old South usually do not like to talk about Confederate naval policy. It scarcely helped the South, did not greatly injure the North in a military sense. But it ruined the U. S. merchant marine. Rebel raiders and privateers sank or destroyed 200 ships worth $30,000,000. Since merchants would not ship in Northern vessels for fear of raiders, almost the entire fleet, totaling 6,000,000 tons, was sold to English interests for the bargain price of $42,000,000, leaving the U. S. at the end of the Civil War with only...
...beer garden), whose pitcher, Clyde Kirkendall, had pitched 127 consecutive scoreless innings (a record) earlier in the season. Women's championship, won by Cleveland's Num Num Girls for the past two years, went to the J. J. Kriegs of Alameda, Calif, (owned by a little clothing merchant...
Aside from an emergency course of sprouts whisked up by the old Shipping Board during the War, the U. S. has never had a merchant-marine training school, has been far behind all other seafaring nations in this respect. Two additional branches are planned, one for the Gulf ports, another on the Pacific coast...