make marketable

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You can't make marketable pulp of charcoal, and the price would have to run pretty high before it would pay for ripping most of the log away to get at the residue.

From Vane of the Timberlands by Bindloss, Harold

For they had been prosperous sugar-makers, and the efforts to make marketable sugar in Louisiana, which had ceased for nearly twenty-five years, were revived.

From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 by Various

“You can’t make marketable pulp of charcoal, and the price would have to run pretty high before it would pay for ripping most of the log away to get at the residue,” he answered harshly.

From The Protector by Bindloss, Harold