merchantable

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Of the $15 billion merchantable goods, about one-half will be sold where it stands, across the oceans.

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He found 5,000,000 feet of burned but merchantable timber lying on 400 acres around it.

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A Chicago newsman, he became poet laureate of the P. F. Volland greeting card company, where he composed hundreds of merchantable verses.

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Its quality, owing to frost damage, is not quite so good, and the merchantable quantity is estimated at 79.4% compared with 85% in 1922.

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As stated by Henry Gannett, it forms the densest forest known if the comparison is made on the basis of the amount of merchantable lumber growing on a given unit of area.

From North America by Russell, Israel C. (Cook)