Word: convert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...March 3), he applied to OPM last week for a certificate of necessity to build $150,000,000 worth of steel mills in the West. His plans include blast furnaces in Utah for Rocky Mountain coal and ore; electric furnaces near Bonneville Dam to use cheap Government power to convert the Utah pig and scrap iron into high-grade steel; a plant in Southern California to use electricity and natural gas (first time on a commercial scale) to smelt local ore; a plate mill near Los Angeles. He thinks he could complete this setup in twelve months, start producing...
...Irish smuggling organizations which used to smuggle cattle into North Ireland in pre-war times, when England forbade the traffic, have taken a new lease on life. In an effort to cripple luxury trades, convert them to war needs, Britain has barred all imports of cosmetics from Eire into Britain or Northern Ireland. Last week not only were women commuting across the border to smuggle in paint and powder, but the old cattle smugglers were busy taking cosmetics over the border...
...Transmission of speech and electrical power on a single wire. Westinghouse engineers convert speech into fast-vibrating radio waves, send it along with slow-vibrating power transmission waves. Chief use: in communicating among the widespread stations of power networks, whose telephone service is often cut off during storms...
...Named veteran Careerman Gardiner Howland Shaw, 47, of Boston, Assistant Secretary of State. Shaw, a thin, monastic, handsome bachelor, a Harvardman, joined the Department in 1917. Careerman Shaw has three passions: his job, his religion (he is a Catholic convert), prison reform. An amateur psychiatrist, Shaw became so knowledgeable on prison methods that the Turkish Government once used him as an unofficial adviser on penal institutions, named a hill in Imrali Island penal colony after him. He has been chief of the Near East division (1927-31), Embassy counselor at Istanbul (1930-37), Foreign Service Personnel chief since...
Standard Hollywood practice would have been to convert "Kitty Foyle," Christopher Morley's "natural history of a woman," into an innocuous boy-meets-girl romance. The verboten questions of social caste and childbirth out of wedlock might have been replaced by sticky sentimentality and irrelevant filler scenes. Ginger Rogers could have devoted her talents to singing and dancing rather than to acting. But, with unusual regard for Morley's novel, the producers of "Kitty Foyle" brought this cross section of a white collar girl's emotions to the screen with almost all its original insight and realism...