Word: merchants
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...competition for the prizes of $100 and $50 offered to students of the University by the National Foreign Trade Council for essays on "The commercial necessity for developing foreign trade through an adequate American merchant marine" has been extended until the opening of College next autumn. All manuscripts must then be delivered to the Secretary of the Faculty, University 20, and must conform to the general rules for the guidance of competitors for prizes on page 594 of the University Catalogue. The essays must also be not less than 3,000 nor more than 5,000 words in length...
These Navy Y. M. C. A. houses do not compete with or overlap other charitable activities in behalf of sailors, for this work for men in the navy is of special character, differing entirely from that which is done for sailors in the merchant marine or for young men in civil life. It is a work organized exclusively for sailors and marines and in some cases soldiers in the United States service, and when it has adequate buildings and equipment at its disposal it provides an open door 24 hours in the day. In addition to beds, lockers, gymnasium, restaurant...
More practical is Mr. Allinson's suggestion, in his carefully reasoned discussion of "Sea Law," that the only solution of the submarine controversy is an agreement that all merchant ships shall go unarmed and submit to visit and search, there by making it utterly inexcusable for a submarine to torpedo without warning...
...encourage the study of the problems of creating a greater American merchant marine, the National Foreign Trade Council offers two prizes for the two best essays, written by undergraduates, on the subject of "The Commercial Necessity for Developing Foreign Trade Through an Adequate American Merchant Marine." These two prizes are of $100 and $50 respectively...