Word: use
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seamen explained, to landlubbers, last week, that a captain turns over the management of his ship to the commander and when an admiral comes on board, the captain then becoming (to use a military simile) the admiral's chief of staff. Ordinarily the possibilities of friction which lurk in such an interlocked command are smoothed over by the formulae of tradition. Last week, however, the captain and commander of the Royal Oak were understood to have filed complaints with the Admiralty alleging that Rear Admiral Collars had grossly and persistently overstepped the bounds of his authority and shamefully browbeaten...
...intent of the treaty is of course to make it impossible for Germany to use her small army as a training school for warriors, something which might easily be done if quick turnovers in enlistment were allowed...
Banker W. J. Johnson, of Chicago, has a $12,000 biplane. "The only use to which I put my ship," he says, "is pleasure. Instead of taking my wife and seven-year-old son for a short week-end trip in the car, as I used to do, we now climb aboard the ship and take a regular trip. On my vacation we went to California...
...without rippling the glassy calm of the money market. Treasury certificates for $550,000,000 were redeemed; $560,000,000 of fresh Government obligations were sold to the prudent. $450,000,000 income tax was collected, and "easy" money "ruled'' because banks had the use of money represented by income tax checks for several days (before return of checks) for nothing...
Frederic Winthrop Allen, chairman of the Vanadium Corporation of America (vanadium & alloy for use in the manufacture of steel tools and cutlery) reported a net income of $1,849,240 (previous year: $1,980,031); revealed that the corporation "has already developed over 100 chemical compounds and stands prepared to furnish these compounds to the trade...