The action taken by the provisional government at the end of September, when it requisitioned the Renault, the proto-type of the ruthless French industrialist, did much to maintain the faith of the workers in the sincerity of de Gaulle's program.
He joined at his own expense the Scottish Flying Club, which had been founded in 1927; it leased and managed Renfrew Airport from 1933 until it was requisitioned during the Second World War.
The bank's remaining representative, an Indian citizen, was happy to loan it to us because he thought our presence would prevent it being requisitioned.
It had been the Turkish police station, he said, and during Leachman's time it was requisitioned by the British.
Between the wars, it continued to expand its position in the market place for quality surveying instruments, although it was requisitioned by the British Government during World War II.
Though his army was small, Brandenburg could not support it without requisitioning funds from the Duchy of Cleves, in the west, and from the Duchy of Prussia.
Make the most of the open period between Christmas and New Year this winter on a walk around "this curious Wiltshire village, deserted since 1943, when it was requisitioned by the MOD for army training".
An architect renovates the house; at the end of the second world war, it's requisitioned by the Russian army; then, under the GDR, the architect has to flee for having done illegal business with the west.
Instead nobody even bothered to maintain the inadequate, overpriced station car park, until last year when half of it was requisitioned to create a car park for the O2, as the Dome is now to be known.
