Word: transferable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact that he would never run for office, Aramburu made little attempt to win popularity on his trip to the south. The petitioners who besieged him for schools, hospitals, street paving-and Salk vaccine-got patient, unsmiling audiences but few promises. A worker on the state railways wanted a transfer to another job: Aramburu crisply reminded him that the railways have 30,000 surplus employees. A delegation wanted the government to build their city a recreation hall. "For a billiard parlor?" asked Aramburu. "That sport of idlers...
Perhaps the best illustration of how integration is working in Washington lies in dozens of anecdotes cited by Hansen. In September 1954 a white mother tried to transfer her child to another school because of the child's Negro teacher. Persuaded to postpone action for a two-or three-week trial period, the mother became so fond of the teacher-and so proud of her child's progress-that she happily decided to leave him where he was. In a junior high school, a group of boys decided to join an anti-integration demonstration going on in front...
...effect of the crisis that Déjoie imprudently touched off was to transfer much of his support to Leftist Fignole, and make the government less stable than ever. Moreover the week's tumult crippled the winter's tourist business, Haiti's second after coffee, and hundreds of hotel workers were laid...
...This transfer of funds to Kreuger, which eventually brought him $144 million, enabled him to go into his criminal corporate juggling act. His fertile mind spawned some 400 subsidiary holding companies, many of them mere names. He used their paper assets to establish his credit in borrowing more money for his loans to European countries; 15 nations received a staggering $400 million. He duly received his match monopolies in return, and soon he was making two out of every three matches in the world...
...have been abandoned since Gomulka took power) he will reduce by one-third the state requisitions from them, and pay twice as much for what the state does get. For other land, restrictions will be removed from ownership, leases, purchases and sales, and the "principle of the free transfer of property will be observed...