Word: convert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first cut of the Yardling squad comes tonight when smiling Chief Boston whittles his unwieldly group of hopefuls down to 35 men. Approximately 85 members of '45 are still out for football, the remaining 45-odd having voluntarily quit. Boston's main job will be to convert several 6 foot, 200 pound ends to backs, or line men, so the season will necessarily start slow...
...abort it), American Car & Foundry declared a dividend on its common stock for the first time since 1937, earned $5,161,130 (compared with a $10,777 loss the year before) for the year ended April 30. A. C. & F. was one of the first heavy-industry companies to convert its plants to war use. It is producing about $200,000 worth of tanks (twelve...
...amounts and in new and separate plants. A really big spate of orders will force the conversion of present automaking plants, tools and man power. Chevrolet, which got a new $89,075,000 War Department contract for 1,000 Pratt & Whitney airplane engines a month, has already prepared to convert all of its automobile facilities in Buffalo and Tonawanda to their manufacture. Other orders: To Ford, $140,000,000 for 4,807 Pratt & Whitneys (in addition to 4,236 already on order); to Chrysler, a $42,000,000 subcontract for Martin bomber parts; to Hudson, a $12,000,000 Martin...
Isolationists whooped that they had won a convert. Actually, the Senator was simply reasserting the Senate's rights, protesting unnecessary concentration of executive power under the screen of national defense. But the flare-up indicated how much crockery will fly when the Administration makes its next big legislative proposal-as it will this week in asking price-fixing powers for Leon Henderson...
...nearly half the U.S. market for motor fuel. The 25 tankers withdrawn this week normally carried 100,000 barrels from the Gulf to Eastern cities every day. When the second 25 follow soon, the seaboard oil stringency will be acute. Already Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) has begun to convert part of its great Bayway (N.J.) refinery to burn coal instead of oil. This week Socony announced it would follow suit, and that it had already converted the heating system of its downtown Manhattan office building. Leon Henderson's civilian rationers in Washington assume that sales of new oil burners...