Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 198, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1914 — PHRASES OF BUSINESS MEN [ARTICLE]

PHRASES OF BUSINESS MEN

May Be New to Most People But Those in the World of Business Recognize Them at Once. The commonest commercial phrases are liable to be new to many people. Thus “B. L.,” “D. A." and “D. S.” may mean little to the man who is not in the world of business, although his commercial brother recognizes them at once as "bill of lading,” "days after acceptance” and “days after sight” But when it comes to the nautical commercial phrases, the average man is lost “A E,” for Instance, means that a vessel Is of the third class and can £arry perishable goods on short trips only. <r“E” means that the ship Is in such a condition that it can carry only such goods as cannot be damaged by sea, and which is the low mark, shortens the length ot the voyage made by vessels la class “H.” A first-class ship is lettered “Al” (A one), and, when she has deteriorated to the class below “A” that letter is painted In red. The symbol for good machinery and boilers is “M. C.," which the average person would Interpret as member of congress. Signs in the medical profession are even more cryptic. When a layman reads “Coch. uniplum” on a bottje he feels like deserting his physician and getting a translator to calm his fears. This notice, however, is just the doctor’s playful way of telling him to take a tablespoonful of the prescription. If the dose is a wine glass, the physician writes “Cyanth,” and lets it go at that “I” to the physician means one; "U” means two; “as” moans a half, and ’tea” means one and a halt The medical symbols for drop and djep by drop sound like a Choctaw Indian cursing. “Gtt” is the proper words for the first and “guttatim” stands for the second.