operable system

Operable systems for both storefront and window awnings had extension arms that were hinged where they joined the facade.

It was held to be unambiguous and that, in the context, 'delivery' meant delivery of materials and not delivery of a completed operable system.

The management of the company was immediately changed, and the fully operable system and related equipment was immediately dismantled in early 1960, not to be seen again.

A former Department of Education official, Barbara Bartholomew, wrote recently in Educational Leadership magazine that the academy was part of a misguided policy of "disbanding an operable system that required thoughtful reform, not dissolution."