Word: reverted
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...Women with working husbands and no other job in prospect will revert to housekeeping...
...Canadian Order in Council provides that six months after war's end half of all oil wells and similar developments revert to the Dominion, the other half to the company developing the project...
...Hale Bros.' building was built on land leased from an estate (the rent: $90,000 a year), on a deal wherein the store would revert to the landowners, upon payment to Hale's of $350,000 when the lease ran out in 1944. Once Hale's almost bought the site for $1,500,000, but stalled for a better bargain. Then someone else snapped up the whole works: San Francisco's famed real-estate operator, Louis R. Lurie...
...Council voted to continue throughout the summer with civilians and men in naval programs both participating. But if men in uniform are unable to continue their extra-curricular activities, and if the workings of the Navy do not correlate with those of the Council, their functions will revert entirely to civilians...
...government. He passed unnoticed the Constitutional provision that "the Congress may by law vest the appointment of such inferior offices as they think proper in the heads o departments." In view of the excellent record which the civil service has had in the past, it would be absurd to revert from a satisfactory procedure to old and inadequate methods...