Word: convert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this flexible system: it gives the individual businessman leeway to do his best individual work. Said Mr. Willkie: "The enterprise fella can enterprise. You ought to see the way Rootes goes after his job. Most of them are thinking, 'If we can outperform the Government arsenals, we can convert them into private factories after the war and there won't be any nonsense about whether private enterprise will survive or not.' So they're working their shirts off. Of course they also have the motive of patriotism, but the big thing is their natural business instincts...
Lashing out at President Conant's attempt to convert the passage of the Lend-Lease Bill into a religious crusade against Nazism, the Harvard Committee Against Military Intervention pleaded that the overwhelming "short of war" sentiment expressed in the passage of the bill be duly recognized in a statement last night...
...this war a concern of the U. S.? "If Great Britain goes down ... all of us in the Americas would be living at the point of a gun. ... To survive in such a world, we would have to convert ourselves permanently into a militaristic power. . . ." Even if Britain falls, will not the U. S. be safe between its oceans? "At one point between Africa and Brazil the distance is less than from Washington to Denver...
...Chicago Bears' line-up-at a reputed $10,000 a game-the week after he played his last game for Illinois. Nowadays, college footballers cannot play professional ball until their class has graduated. But any player who in eight games can score 16 touchdowns, throw seven touchdown passes, convert 18 points-after-touchdown and kick a field goal-to give his team 159 of their 196 points-is good whenever the pros can get him. The Chicago Bears and Washington Redskins had each reportedly offered $25,000 to catch the Wolverine Express for next year...
Main cause of diminution in the volume of British retail trade has been not so much German bombs as the result of British efforts to convert certain industries to war use and to export the largest possible quantity of goods. Dec. i was set as the deadline after which British retailers will be able to get no more silk stockings from British wholesalers. Result: this week every silk-lingerie counter in London was the scene of wild scrambles. Some shops set the limit at one dozen pairs to a customer...