Word: merchanted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Merchant Marine...
...subject that has been given to this Navy day ties up the fighting sea forces of the nation with the Merchant Marine, a combination of factors that Naval authorities feel vital to the life and continued well-being of the nation...
...value of the Merchant Marine from the naval standpoint lies in the fact that in time of war American merchantmen can furnish without delay the necessary auxiliaries of transport and supply ships...
...native France during the revolution, was sent to Illinois as a missionary, finally settled in Detroit in 1798. Arriving two years after the U. S. had annexed the Michigan territory, Father Richard was a leader of the village of less than 1,000 a year before its first merchant arrived. The priest brought Michigan its first piano, its first organ (whose pipes Indians stole, returned when they suspected the Great Spirit was angry), its first printing press on which he got out the territory's first newspaper, the Michigan Essay and Impartial Observer. When Detroit burned to the ground...
...vegetation of west central Texas agrees with the Angora goats who grow the best quality mohair and every bush and tree is nibbled clean as high as goat can reach. A huge fortune from Texas mohair was made by Charles Schreiner, a French immigrant who started as a merchant, turned to banking, prospered as a goat rancher when a 34? a Ib. tariff began keeping out Turkish and South African mohair. At one time he owned a goat ranch twice as large as Rhode Island. At his death a few years ago, Louis Schreiner -known to Texas goat herders...