Word: transferable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spirits." He always "wished (he) had never been born," and looked so abject that once, after he had conducted the Queen of Saxony on an official tour of the Post Office, her gentleman-in-waiting pressed a half crown into his grimy hand. When he was offered a transfer to a bleak section of Ireland, Trollope gratefully accepted...
...details of what a transfer to the Regular Navy would mean in the way of a career, Forrestal frankly admitted, would depend on future legislation. All he could offer now were three generalized inducements: 1) transfers would be made in such, a manner as to "place all of you on an equal footing with U.S.N. officers of about the same age and of the same length of service in rank"; 2) Reservists who transfer would get the best naval education in the world; and 3) they would be promised "an equal opportunity in promotions and assignments...
...degree). Once, when he was stationed at Self ridge Field, Mich., he almost quit the Air Corps to fly trimotored planes for Henry Ford. But he stuck and studied, and by 1937 he was recognized as one of the Corps's ablest celestial navigators. This led to his transfer to bombardment and the first B-17s. He navigated a flight 600 miles out to sea-a famous and daring feat in 1937-and came out of the overcast over his objective, the Italian liner...
Beyond its political functions the League served many purposes which the new organization must encompass, supervising such international concerns as health, welfare, education, drugs, slavery and intellectual cooperation. The choice of which. to drop, which to continue and how to make the transfer was one of the commission's big jobs...
...that all. A "transferability clause" which allowed the War Department to transfer 10% of an appropriation to another fund let the Army play fast & loose with Congress' intentions. With 10% of a $25 million expediting fund. 10% of a $16 million engineers' service fund, plus sums transferred from highway funds, the War Department was able to spend $86 million on the Pentagon Building-after Congress had authorized an expenditure on "that white elephant" not to exceed $35 million...