Word: convert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...another tantrum Barnes last week closed his museum and art school after his ration board insisted he convert to coal heat. Coal smoke would smudge his paintings, Barnes said, adding that the ration board was "semiliterate" and "asked me if I ever beat my wife...
...made at the time Bedaux's 14th-Century chateau in France was being used for the wedding of the Duke to Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson. Thereafter Bedaux's fascist tie-up became more evident. It did not involve Windsor except through Bedaux's attempts to convert the former British king, among others, to a new Bedaux system of "economic and social appeasement." This theory thinly disguised Nazi ideology by advocating the intervention of the state in labor controversies and class frictions (i.e., improving the lot of the masses by putting them in their place...
Whether this book will "convert" many of its readers is quite another problem. Most of the stock counter-arguments to Marxian thought can be levelled against this, the most recent addition to the subject. The unrealistic division of modern society into two and only two classes, the distortion of culture into economics plus incidentals, and the ascription of cohesiveness to groups which are obviously not cohesive are all part and parcel of the development of Marxian analysis as it is presented in "The Theory of Capitalist Development...
Significant is C.E.D.'s highly decentralized "grassroots" approach. It proposes ultimately to establish up to 150 regional offices which will canvass local industry to find out how quickly it can convert from war work to peace; what is its top peacetime capacity; and how each firm plans to merchandise its products so as to create a mass market...
...Government tried to tell business how to run its plants without itself going to war. Japan forced the issue. And when Government itself accepted war and made its acceptance palpable by offering huge specific military contracts, industry did not need to be told how to convert. In large part it showed the way to the Government...