Word: transferable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WASHINGTON--Plans of the War Relocation Authority to facilitate transfer of American-born Japanese from western relocation centers to eastern farms, homes and industry were disclosed tonight...
Short for Turrets. Headed for gunners' wings and immediate transfer to combat outfits, the new graduates marched past Fort Myers' lean, brown-eyed commander, Colonel Delmar T. Spivey, and a party of visitors. There were a few tall men among them, but most of the new gunners were undersized, were stretching their legs to the limit to make a regulation pace. "Good for these tight turrets," observed Del Spivey. "They can shoot, too, I'll guarantee that...
...Transfer. In Summerberry, Sask., a freight train frightened a horse, which bolted into the train, threw his rider, James Hollingshead, safely on to a passing flatcar, backed away, fell dead...
Last week the House debated colonial policy. Laborite Creech A. Jones rose to utter these labored words: "Much as it might be right that Britain should not and could not transfer her administrative responsibility to an international syndicate, it was imperative we should give evidence that we welcomed third-party interest and third-party judgment and the fullest cooperation in the colonial field." To that, Liberal James Armand de Rothschild snapped: "We are not fighting against the thralldom of the Central European powers to submit after the war to any tyranny on the part of Pan American Airways...
...sign of what postwar moving days may be like, Pittsburgh's wide-awake W. J. Dillner Transfer Co. applied to operate an air-cargo line to haul household goods anywhere in the U.S. and Alaska. The company wants to fly pianos, refrigerators, kitchen stoves, etc., would start out with four cargo planes (five-and ten-ton load capacity) and six gliders (two-or three-ton loads...