Word: transferability
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About Mr. Cromwell, international corporation lawyer, everyone knows. He negotiated the transfer of rights for a Panama Canal from French investors to the U. S. Government. He was one of the organizers of U. S. Steel Corp. He reorganized many a great U. S. corporation and put them, he likes to repeat, ''all on a paying basis...
...Mark Koenig, last year shortstop for the Detroit Tigers. This year he will probably be a pitcher. John Watwood, Chicago White Sox left fielder, may shift to first base. Lindstrom, the Giants' third baseman will try the outfield. Rogers Hornsby, new manager of the Chicago Cubs, may transfer from second base to first, moved famed Hack Wilson from centre field to right...
...Francisco without an overnight stop. But beginning this week (April 1) through service with trimotored passenger planes is open to everyone, by virtue of new schedules on National Air Transport (New York-Chicago) and Boeing Air Transport (Chicago-San Francisco). Passengers leaving New York about 9 a. m. transfer at Chicago in midafternoon, fly all night (in darkness over lighted airway from Iowa City to Salt Lake City) to land in San Francisco shortly after noon (31 hr.). Eastbound passengers take off about noon, fly in darkness from Salt Lake City to Omaha, reach Chicago...
...Thomas while a Marine detachment shot off a 17-gun salute. The black population with its 5% sprinkling of whites massed in Emancipation Park to watch Governor Pearson take the oath of office, hear his inaugural address. They were all in good humor because the ceremony marked the transfer of their government from the Navy under Capt. Waldo Evans to the Department of the Interior. The blackamoors (who speak Danish) stared in wonderment as Governor Pearson, who used to teach public speaking at Swarthmore College, rolled out a sonorous address in which he recognized the islands' "critical economic problems...
...Virgin Islands, once famed as a buccaneer's resort, from Denmark for $25,000,000 in 1917 when it was feared Germany would establish a submarine base there. Until last week they were a neglected appendage of the Navy Department which used them as a coaling base. Their transfer to civil government by President Hoover was generally regarded as the first step in a program to demilitarize U. S. insular possessions...