Word: convert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fire was a proposal to convert two vacant lots owned by the University near Dunster and Leverett House into parking spaces which would have accomodated 60 cars in all. Without strong support from student auto-owners, Council appeals to the Administration would have lost their effectiveness...
Prelude to Decision. No word of world crisis yet came from the President. Resting during a long weekend at Hyde Park, the President spent his time planning to convert some swampland to truck farming. He entertained Crown Princess Martha of Norway, postponed his return to Washington when the weather cleared. With an almost ostentatious disregard of the news he spent the Sunday morning with members of the Chapel Corners Grange, although the mission from Moscow had been on hand a full day. Averell Harriman, keeping to the tempo of the time, flew from Moscow to London, broadcast a breathless speech...
...roller-bearing a single car (excluding new trucks) costs $750 v. $40 for friction bearings. To convert the whole car supply, as Sanders' ad urged, would cost well over $1,000,000,000 and take two-thirds of the whole U.S. 1940 output of alloy steel, which has plenty of other defense uses. Furthermore, road speed is not the chief railroad bottleneck. Freight cars average only two hours a day in transit; what slows them up is not their friction bearings but standing in terminals, loading, unloading and making up trains...
...made this forecast before the liquor industry stepped up. By making a few quick (and inexpensive) changes in their present stills, the distillers can convert the shortage into a surplus. This will cut whiskey production by only 12-15%, not enough to worry barflies (current liquor stocks could last for five years). The Government meanwhile rids itself of some near-useless, near-rotting corn. The transportation squeeze is helped a bit because most distilleries and powder plants are in the same area-Kentucky, Maryland, Virginia...
Stumbling over uncounted children the names of whom their Italian father could not recall, we interviewed one family around the kitchen stove. They gladly posed for pictures and proudly explained sympathy for the union. The students left with the feeling of conquest and another convert chalked up to their credit...