Word: convert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what pleased Liberals most was that tough Jimmy Gardiner had forged a potent political weapon. In Gardiner's own farmer-dominated Saskatchewan the up-&-coming Socialist C.C.F., which both Liberals and Conservatives mortally hate and fear, has been winning many a convert among the disgruntled. Minister Gardiner's bacon deal might help stem the Left-wing tide in the part of the Dominion where it flows highest...
...made U.S. railroads one of the sickest of sick industries. When business fell off, many a road collapsed under the monstrous overload of fixed charges represented by interest on its bonded debt. In its 57th annual report to Congress, ICC hinted that it may soon ask for legislation to convert all railroad fixed-or contingent-interest mortgage bonds into income bonds when earnings slump. Thus bondholders, like stockholders, would be paid only when earnings warranted, and the carriers would not be dragged into bankruptcy courts for failure to earn fixed charges in poor years...
Delicate though this problem may be, it is subsidiary to the main problem: how to project 1943's activity into peacetime, how to convert 1943's volume of output into peacefully useful goods-in short, again, what are the economic substitutes for war? But that problem could not be stated through a contemplation of the war boom, or a hopeful smacking of lips over the first postwar buying surge. It will require a much longer look-ahead...
This attitude has roots in the strange, cool personality of Donald Douglas-and illustrates exactly the present plight of the airplane industry, which is crowding the skies of the world with warplanes, and dreads the day when it must convert to making a dribble of peace planes...
...first successful attempt in history to make rain artificially may be in the offing. From Capetown last week came word of a scheme by Chief Meteorologist Theodor Eberhardt Werner Schumann, South Africa's leading scientist, to convert Table Mountain's famed "cloth," a perpetually present blanket of very moist cloud, into water by means of electricity. Preliminary tests have convinced Dr. Schumann that dry Capetown can extract 31,000,000 gallons of water a day from this ever-present vapor...