Word: merchanted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ship's one able seaman for every 100 register tons, they had one to every 1,000 register tons. Most of the crews are 17-year-old boys who want to serve in square-rigged sail, required by many governments to qualify for officers' papers in the merchant service. They are paid from $5 to $10 a month, the masters about $50 a month. Some of the apprentices pay for the privilege of signing up. They know that about one in 20 of them is lost over the side. Some ships have crews of 13, most less than...
...demonstration of a new aid to mariners-a device which pierces fog and darkness to tell the navigator what obstacles lie near his ship. Commander Paul Humphrey Macneil calls the device a "fog-eye." To watch its first seagoing performance a group of U. S. and British naval observers, merchant marine experts, physicists made the trip to Bermuda. Lack of fog on the outbound voyage disappointed them. But whenever the Queen passed another ship the fog-eye, connected to a loudspeaker, snorted out the news. The outlying islands of the Bermuda group caused a clatter. At Bermuda, Commander Macneil transferred...
...Juilliard Musical Foundation has given a fine organ, the American Bible Society a copy of the Bible in every language it publishes. Most of the building's total cost - $1,000,000 - was donated by the late James Newbegin Jarvie, Montclair (N. J.) sugar and coffee merchant, friend of Archibald Clinton Harte, who as Jerusalem secretary conceived the idea of a great building and carried forward the plans...
...results of the singles matches are as follows: S. E. Davenport '34 defeated W. F. Owen (A) 6-0, 6-2; Richard Inglis Jr. '33 defeated E. O. Merchant (A) 6-1, 6-2; G. H. Hartford '34 defeated R. S. Clifton (A) 2-6, 8-6, 6-4; W. E. Arensberg '33 defeated P. B. Lyster (A) 6-3, 6-3; J. F. Ray '34 defeated S. C. Limerick (A) 6-0, 7-5; and F. W. Jones, Jr. '35 defeated J. A. Shields...
...doubles Arensberg and Inglis defeated Merchant and Owen 6-2, 6-3; F. P. Whitbeck '35 and J. K. Mitchell '34 defeated Lyster and Limerick 7-9, 6-8, 6-4; and Jones and Wilkinson (A) defeated Shields and Clifton...