Word: merchantman
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...Camden, N. J. yard this week. It was on Way O that the aircraft carrier Saratoga was built. The U. S. Line's new liner will be 705 ft. long, have a beam of 86 ft., a speed of 20 knots. It will be the largest merchantman ever built...
...grey limousine draw up by the shore. A man dressed as a gendarme and a woman in a tan coat had stepped out, carrying a limp figure which was placed in a motor boat which instantly sped off in the direction of Houlgate. Other witnesses announced that a Russian merchantman had been lying off the mouth of the Seine near Houlgate for several days, that it disappeared on Jan. 27. La Liberté demanded once more the breaking off of diplomatic relations with Russia, invited Parisians to a monster mass meeting...
...proper color or quantity, does not please the folks at home, or for any reason is not perfectly satisfactory, should be brought back at once, and ... we will refund the money." Citizens of Philadelphia, turning from their daily preoccupation with the Civil War, were glad to read Merchantman John Wanamaker's announcement, found him as good as his word, helped him turn over his stock so fast that soon he was Philadelphia's biggest merchant, civic monument, U. S. phenomenon...
When Henry Ford began manufacturing cars that sold for $900 ($600 lower than the comparable model of the Association of Licensed Automobile Manufacturers) Merchantman Wanamaker became Ford's Manhattan and Philadelphia agent. When Wanamaker's new Philadelphia building was dedicated in 1911, no less a personage than President William Howard Taft pronounced the jovial blessing...
...Worn, wrinkled, penniless, he had tramped from Ottumwa, Iowa, to Washington to tell his story. He had served aboard the U. S. S. Dixie during the Spanish War, was thus entitled to a pension. The brand on his brow he got from the Turks in 1915. Aboard a British Merchantman running the Turkish blockade into Asia Minor, he had been captured, mistaken for a spy. The Turks had marked his forehead with their own Spider of Death and Germany's Double Eagle. Then they imprisoned him in the desolate Blue Mountains. With a young English girl named Ada Allen...