Word: convert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when Britain's postwar dollar shortage was still tight, Bowater persuaded the Labor Government to let him convert $15 million worth of pounds into dollars to provide the equity capital for his new plant. He argued that within 15 years all the dollars would be paid back in the form of dividends to the British parent. Then, from a group of U.S. insurance companies and banks (led by Morgan Stanley and J. P. Morgan & Co.), Bowater was able to borrow $45 million to provide the rest of the financing. They were willing to lend the money only because...
Munro put the Crimson through a light drill yesterday with no contact work. He worked on defense with Chuck Haddik, a halfback whom Munro is trying to convert to fullback. He was impressed enough with Haddik's progress to name him to today's starting lineup. Munro plans to start. Bill Cowperthwaite in place of Linglebach, but is counting on both Toro and Holmes at least to begin the game...
...Communist?" question. Greene, who was en route to London from a vacation in Haiti, was politely detained overnight, next morning took off for Havana for a few days' nightclubbing and the chance to bemuse reporters with his story. The heart of the matter, explained famed Roman Catholic Convert Greene: 31 years ago, at 19, he and a friend decided, for a joke, to take control of the "Oxford branch" of the party. They joined but soon were found out and ousted. "They couldn't have picked on a person who is less a Communist," he said...
...from stifling free enterprise, big business has given it more vitality through research and the introduction of new products. Aside from the Government, only big business can afford "to convert [original ideas] into market realities." Says Kaplan: "Big business . . . makes a contribution to the total economy that cannot be made by smaller-scale enterprises and that . . . should not be added to the burden of the state . . . Big business has not merely been kept effectively subject to a competitive system; on the whole it has also made an essential contribution to its scope, vitality and effectiveness...
...affection with a common geisha in Tokyo, but she neither rants nor strays from the marital quilt. Proud of the firm body her husband neglects, she swims in the crashing offshore combers, or takes up the foils with her son's fencing master. Nominally a Roman Catholic convert, Nobuko finds her true religion in the classic No plays, to her a kind of mystic opium...