Word: convert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crown company's job is to keep Canada's peacetime forces equipped, from key munitions plants, with the latest in arms-and to make sure that civilian plants (autos, refrigerators, etc.) are ready to convert to war production "within a matter of weeks instead of months or years...
Durant and Claflin produced sketches to show exactly how the University would convert the land of the Botanical Gardens and the Observatory to housing use under the second plan. They promised to begin work as soon as possible on four-family dwellings or other units, which they estimated would permit the Botanical grounds to hold 28 families and the Observatory about 14 more, if the Council okayed that plan
...York archdiocese's Catholic Charities. Though born a Lutheran (in Nastatten, Germany) and raised in the U.S. a Methodist, Senator Wagner's conversion occasioned no surprise. His wife, who died in 1919, was a Catholic; his son, Robert Jr. was brought up as a Catholic. Obviously, Convert Wagner had been considering the move for some time. Said Msgr. Keegan's assistant after the ceremony: "He told me that he and Al Smith had talked about it before Al died, and that he had told Al that he would become a Catholic...
There was a time when Italy led the world in matters of art. But last week Italy gratefully accepted the Mexican Government's offer to lend-lease its three master muralists (Rivera, Orozco, Siqueiros). The big three will help convert Italy's gaudy Mussolini Era civic architecture to the uses of democracy. Their assignment: to furbish "Forum Mussolini," the Duce's red brick and white marble memorial to himself on the banks of the Tiber (now a U.S. Army rest camp), where young Fascists used to flock to learn fencing and fawning...
...technique, in its wealth of new plants and in prestige, industry was never better equipped. It had performed superlatively in doing the first part of the job, reconverting back to 1939. Now it must convert...