Word: convert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cambodia, or to emergency havens provided by rich customers (who paid the madams up to 10,000 piasters for the privilege). But the back of the racket nevertheless was broken. Last week Diem's police began stripping the Dai La Thien of its mirrors and nude murals, to convert it into a school for ex-prostitutes, teaching them such trades as sewing and nursing. To discourage girls from reverting to their old trade, police announced that customers caught patronizing them would be jailed until their wives applied for their release...
...billion program aimed at eliminating 23 million acres. An eventual total of 1,000,000 U.S. farmers would be paid up to $5,000 a year, get $15-$20 an acre for cover-crop seeds, plus annual payments of 5%-7% of the appraised value of the land they convert...
...years is $72,800,000, and the government has plans to borrow another $190 million. Wool sales are lagging behind because of low prices on the world market. A wheat surplus, spurred by government subsidies, is snowballing. To complicate matters, the subsidies have encouraged cattlemen to reduce herds and convert pasture land to wheat. As a result, many of the country's packing and canning plants are idle, and Uruguay has been trying to import beef cattle from Argentina to keep them going. Batlle Berres is sure to have a few words to say about wheat, especially since...
...also quick to convert night-school theory into practical business use. Two department-store buyers who were moaning about discount-house competition in Marx's office one day were flabbergasted when the toymaker interrupted them: "It's like this guy Toynbee says. It's a question of challenge and response. These discount houses are the challenge that is going to make department stores into merchants again...
...Army will convert its ROTC unit here from Artillery to General Military Science next June, it was learned yesterday. This will mark the first time in the ROTC's 37-year old history that there has been no Artillery unit at the College...