Word: merchanted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From smartshops, from bargain basements, from stores great & small, some 5,000 leading merchants of the land assembled in Manhattan last week for the annual convention of the National Retail Dry Goods Association. With the Christmas rush behind them, the Easter season dimly distant, the retailers took a full week off, stayed for a five-day meeting which included no less than 35 sessions, 170 speeches. Between sessions some retailers managed to squeeze in visits to spring furniture shows, lamp shows, corset shows. Attendance at Manhattan hotspots during the week showed a considerable bulge. For most of the retailers, however...
There are some 130,000 seamen in the U. S. merchant marine. Until this year these men have had to pass no examinations in seamanship to get jobs. They merely submitted discharge papers from previous voyages. These papers were terse in the extreme, had no positive identification, were often sold by poverty-stricken sailors. In New York's Bowery or Boston's Scollay Square any landlubber could buy papers saying he was an accomplished Able Seaman. Many authorities blamed this situation in part for the Morro Castle disaster. Last June, Congress passed the Copeland Sea Safety Bill, which...
Simultaneously, Italy's rival merchant marine reorganized into four groups each covering one section of the seven seas and operating under a holding company named Finmare.* Finmare's first job will be to alter the Rex to try to recapture the Blue Riband of the Atlantic...
...also King of France. And again she had one to take his place. Henri III fled from his unwanted job as King of Poland and came home to see what he and his mother could salvage. He had to borrow 100,000 francs from a Florentine merchant to get to his coronation. The sands were rapidly running out. With the help of his maternal adviser and by judicious getaways and judicious murders, Henri managed to hold on to the crown for 14 years. A few months before an assassin's knife finished Henri III and with him Catherine...
...lingo into such terms as "simian-faced son of a spinster," or "blood-stained Bulgarians." Sailor Smith spent the War in "Trousers Pulling Down Contests" ("the officer whose brace buttons first touched the deck lost the contest") with his brother officers in the wardroom. Between times he commanded armed merchant cruisers, aircraft carriers. The War over, he hitched up his trousers and went ashore to preside over the Royal Naval College at Greenwich...