merchantable

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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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Nevertheless, the result of all this figuring and jiggering is a picture that is both merchantable and unexpectedly moving.

From Time Magazine Archive

The forest should not be stripped, but merely the merchantable or ready timber removed from year to year, and the domain kept in a growing and recuperating condition.

From The Holy Earth by Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde)