Word: convert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...used less than 100 years ago. Many dental researchers are sure that this excessive proportion of sugar accounts for the fact that caries (tooth decay) is the commonest U.S. disease. Fruit can satisfy the craving for something sweet, and the chemistry of the saliva and the digestive juices automatically convert the starch of bread, potatoes, corn, etc. to the sugars the body needs...
...Treasury also left the present normal corporate income tax unchanged at 24%. Instead, it would convert the present 6% and 7% surtax into a "war surtax" of maybe 31%, aimed at the most profitable corporations. One reason for not raising the normal rate: some outstanding Federal bonds are tax-exempt as to normal tax, not as to surtax. If the normal tax were increased, these bonds might become unduly attractive in comparison with new (wholly taxable) issues to come...
...Getting military production out of factories and machines which are now producing civilian goods" came second. Last week a tough-as-nails WPB told the radio industry-a "good" industry compared to most, in that it went after some war orders early in the game-to convert 100% in the next four months or else have their plants stripped of usable men and machines by the Government. Three other industries (refrigerators, washing machines, office machinery & typewriters) got a less publicized but even more enlightening Washington lecture. They were told that WPB has a new conversion policy: 100% real war production...
...Convert Tennis Courts...
Four universities have been leased by the Navy, which will convert them into schools for fledgling flyers. The Navy withheld the universities' names, said they were in the East, South, Midwest and West. The Navy will take over part of their facilities for the duration, use their athletic fields, classrooms and dormitories to train a total of 30,000 embryo pilots a year...