Word: convert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bowles's advice to his stockholders: convert their stock into Atlas bonds priced at $20 each and paying 5%. But the stockholders figured it would be more exciting, and maybe more profitable, to keep on being stockholders...
...plantations of Salvador or in the cattle-raising ranches of Uruguay, mere expressions of the juridical equality of nations have little reality. This may also be true of the farmers of the United States. If the ideal of Pan-Americanism is to become deeprooted, it is absolutely necessary to convert it into a factor of welfare and of concrete benefit for our people...
...stop him, now looks on it as the keystone of a Kaiser postwar empire. Said he: "Fontana is not and will not be for sale." Kaiser repeated an old promise. He plans to operate Fontana himself after the war, would sink another $37,000,000 into Fontana to convert it to peacetime steelmaking...
...Surplus bombers, which the British feared would be used by the U.S. to dominate world air-cargo routes, are already being turned down by airlines as too expensive to convert and operate...
Last week came news that in a decree signed by his Minister of the Pen, the Emperor has decreed a drastic restriction of missionary activity in Ethiopia. Hence forth missionaries must not attempt to convert good Copts. They may maintain their hospitals and schools, but only if they teach those "principles of Christianity common to all Christian churches...