Word: relinquish
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...Belgium would give her small, densely-settled, mid-African mandate of Ruanda-Urundi, where police see that every native (except the pygmies) keeps at least 1¼ acres under cultivation. Australia would turn over phosphate-rich Nauru, New Guinea and neighboring islands. New Zealand was ready to relinquish mountainous, copra-producing Western Samoa...
...league, although outclassed at the top end by Company 3, is packed closely together down at the bottom, and games early next week may change the standings. On Monday Lowell, with no wins and three defeats, has an opportunity to relinquish its cellar position to Winthrop, with only two losses against no wins, while Navy Company 1 and Adams will try to improve their respective positions...
...seven plants built for it by the Aluminum Co. of America (construction cost: $250 million). Alcoa had been operating the plants for RFC under leases which would have expired in 1947 and 1948. RFC was willing to let Alcoa continue under one condition: that the company agree to relinquish the plants at any time on 60 days' notice. When Alcoa refused, RFC canceled the leases, released the plants for sale to create "competition in the aluminum industry...
...felt that to yield would be fatal. Most notorious were Filomeno Velazco, chief of police, and General Juan Pistarini, Minister of Public Works. Tenaciously, they and their fellows clung to power, preventing the Government's concessions from having much effect. Said Pistarini (according to Vanguardia): "We shall relinquish the Government when frogs grow hair...
...solemnly call upon General Franco . . . to relinquish power . . . ." In Paris moderate Miguel Maura, one time Minister of the Interior, declared that most Spaniards were opposed to the monarchy. In London, astute Juan Negrin. the Republic's last Premier, labored quietly for a Republican comeback...