Word: transfer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said President Vauclain: "Throughout the year difficulty was experienced in obtaining, at any price, sufficient business to operate our workshops and maintain an irreducible minimum organization. Trade relations with foreign countries were sustained and improved. Workshops and machinery have been fully maintained and the transfer of equipment and operations from our works in Philadelphia to Eddystone continued. Your management considers the outlook favorable for a satisfactory business throughout the year...
...most excellent, and rather curiously, has been popular. Steven's 'Paul Bunyan" records the yarns of the great legendary character of the American lumber-camps. Theodore Dreiser has written his first novel in several years, "An American Tragedy," in two volumes. J. R. Dos Passos in "Manhattan Transfer," writing in a kaleidoscopic fashion that savours of James Joyce describes the life of New York--or a part of it. Christopher Morley's "Thunder on the Left" is well known and applauded. "The Private Life of Helen of Troy" by John Erskine is an entertaining and modern story of that fascinating...
...eight billion additional francs per annum, by increasing the taxes on alcohol, business transactions and practically everything else; 2) The franc slipped down last week to 27 to the $1, a new low record for the year. The relative stability of numerous foreign currencies, prompted the harassed Jean to transfer his currency into pounds, gulden, Scandinavian kroner, U. S. dollars...
...only got a raise of two cents an hour by the transfer; yet when my former companions saw me--with tools--a huge wrench and an oil can--my social standing was "elevated amazingly." Mr. Williams also told the story of a carpenter who went away from a humble job to a position where hours were shorter and pay higher. A fortnight later he returned. "Higher, pay?--yeah. But do you know what they wanted me to do? Bang together a bunch of boards into a ramshackle barn for a target, and one shot from a gun 14 miles...
Another change in the eating facilities offered students was brought about by the transfer of Jimmie's Lunch in the basement of the lampoon Building to Arthur, tobacconist, who in taking over Jimmie's, also moved his smoke shop into the Lampoon basement...