Word: transferability
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...Russia had a gold deposit valued at $847,500,000. Owing to a London transfer, the Bolsheviki inherited only $582,000,000. Of the last sum, $350,000,000 was transferred to Kazan, where Admiral Kolchak was prompt to seize $340,000,000?all of which was in one way or another dissipated. The Bolsheviki, however, recouped themselves by their victories to the extent of $320,000,000 and, therefore, were the net losers of only $20,000,000. Thus, Communism inherited $562,000,000 worth of Capitalism's estate...
...Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, he says, "was done, completed, admirably performed" when it drew up the Uniform Sales Act, the Uniform Conditional Sales Act, the Uniform Warehouse Receipt Act, the Uniform Bills of Lading Act, and the Uniform Negotiable Instruments Act. After stating that the Uniform Stock Transfer Act was "perhaps still excusable," Mr. Hemphill added: "But then came the Uniform Partnership, Acknowledgments, Aeronautics, Desertion and Non-Support Acts -and then a real fever, a mad desire to make everything uniform.* There followed a wholesale production of nonsense, and the plant is still in 100% operation. . . . Mr. Madison...
...innovation in spring training methods has recently been put into effect at the Princeton football field. In order to instill new ideas into the preliminary work, Coach Roper has arranged for a transfer of coaches between Princeton and the University of Michigan...
...publicity stopped, presumably because it could not be sustained against the evidences of liquor on every hand. Interest shifted from Mr. Haynes to the Treasury Department proper. Mr. Moss, who had other things to do besides enforcing prohibition, became swamped with work. Now he has been relieved by the transfer of the whole liquor question to General Andrews, whose chief care it will be. Does this mean the end of Mr. Haynes' importance...
...payment in cash. General Motors, through J. P. Morgan & Co., offered $124,650,000 worth of that commodity. But a banking syndicate headed by Dillon, Read & Co. of Manhattan offered $146,000,000 and the widows promptly accepted. The transaction is said to be the largest single cash transfer of an industrial concern in the history...