Word: convert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President announced plans for $120,000 alterations to his executive offices: to extend a wing 60 ft. southward, providing a new office for himself, a new meeting room for the Cabinet and a new room for one of his secretaries; to convert his present office and the Cabinet room into offices for the overcrowded and overworked secretarial staff now working in the basement and in the Department of State across the street...
Secretary Morgenthau last week counted up how many holders of called 4th Liberty Loan 4¼% bonds had accepted his offer to convert them into new 2¼% 10-12-year bonds (TIME, April 16). Delighted, he found that all but $208,000,000 had been converted of the $1,005,000,000 called and due. The Treasury's $4,600,000,000 stock of cash on hand could easily handle the relatively small cash demand. Mr. Morgenthau was in fact so delighted at the success of his conversion that he had an appetite for more: after consulting with...
...goodwill, loud robust William Wrigley Jr. thought nothing of distributing 29 carloads of Gem razors and 1,000,000 electric clocks along with his gum. Early in Depression he pleased the South by announcing he would convert up to $12,000,000 from his southern gum sales into cotton (TIME, April 13, 1931). He had already boosted Wrigley sales in Canada and attracted wide publicity by buying quantities of Canadian wheat in a depressed market. By the time he died in 1932 the U. S. consumption of gum had risen in 18 years from 39 sticks per capita...
...Convert Sweeney soon became the steward of Calvary House, a mission ably run by Rev. Samuel Moor ("Sam") Shoemaker, rector of Manhattan's Calvary Episcopal Church and No. 1 U. S. Group leader. Later he went as butler to Mrs. Limburg, joining with her once a week in "quiet time" (communion with...