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Requisitioning and taxes on livestock provoked revolt across the tundra.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 15, 2019

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

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

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

This attitude helped the Model Railroad Club start, on an extremely informal basis, something called the Midnight Requisitioning Committee.

From Hackers, Heroes of the Computer Revolution Chapters 1 and 2 by Levy, Steven