Word: convert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scheme smacked of World War I's S.A.T.C. (Students' Army Training Corps), a flop that cost some $160 millions. But Conant argues that S.A.T.C. had too short a trial. The president of Harvard's plan would certainly be expensive, and it would more or less convert all colleges into West Points and Annapolises. But, says Conant, it would also restore "an essential element in our democracy-the birthright of opportunity which in an earlier age was the gift of the American frontier...
...groups were trying hard to convert into pro-war sentiment the quite comprehensible rage of the Mexican people against the Nazis who had killed 13 of the Potrero del Llano's 35-man crew, 14 of the Faja de Oro's 41. A procession of the Potrero's survivors, bearing with them the body of Engineer Rodolfo Chacon Castro, who had died of wounds in a Miami hospital, moved south from San Antonio, Tex. It was predicted that 100,000 would greet the cortege when it arrived in Mexico City's main square, the Zocalo, where...
...This is no secondary front," cries Expert Kiralfy. "It is a second prime front. Wishfulness cannot change this unquestionable definition, but military science can convert it into a victorious front." Northward-Ho. How? Says Author Kiralfy: "There is a homely saying to the effect that if the harness breaks and no other is available, string should be used. . . . Many harnesses have been broken, so much string will have to be used." The particular string with which Kiralfy would bend his bow is an Allied invasion of Japan from the half-Russian island of Sakhalin. Sakhalin is almost within firing distance...
...ordered 20,000 U.S. auto graveyards to convert all their jalopies into scrap every 60 days or face requisitioning. Within two and a half years, guessed WPB, 15,000,000 more cars will be junked-double the peacetime rate, and half of all the cars now in service...
...only solves the present problem of inflation but the post-war problem of purchasing power as well. If the great mass of the people emerge from this war virtually penniless, living from hand to mouth, just where is the demand to come from which will be needed to convert war production into consumer production? When we win this war, we will be in possession of the greatest industrial machine in the world, a machine whose resources could make possible a standard of living far higher than any yet attained by us or any other nation. But that standard cannot...