Example Sentences

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Requisitioning and taxes on livestock provoked revolt across the tundra.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 15, 2019

The brief announcement said only that Colonel Charles R. Baxter of Army Ordnance had been made Chief of a new Materials Redistribution Branch of WPB, successor to the Inventory & Requisitioning Branch.

From Time Magazine Archive

Requisitioning seized 78,000 lb. of copper sheet from a bathroom-supply dealer named Katz, who had refused to sell it to Metals Reserve.

From Time Magazine Archive

WPB's Inventory & Requisitioning Branch was set up two days after Pearl Harbor with almost unlimited power to handle just such problems.

From Time Magazine Archive

I have been transferred from my old post of Requisitioning Officer to Supply Officer, Cavalry Division Supply Column.

From War Letters of a Public-School Boy by Jones, Henry Paul Mainwaring