Word: convert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since 1923, five Presidents have tried in vain to get Congress' final approval of a new Cabinet post for the Government's welfare functions. Last week President Eisenhower made his try, asked Congress to let him convert the vast Federal Security Agency (37,000 employees) into the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. His plan would make Federal Security Administrator Oveta Gulp Hobby his tenth Cabinet member...
...three badmen have sunny natures, warm hearts, clever hands, sleepless brains; all three are passionate believers in the robinhood of man. Possessing every criminal art and penal grace, they set matters aright in a Gallic Christmas Carol where it is simpler to bump Scrooge off than to convert...
Zeprex. The U.S. Plywood Corp. has bought the National Brick Corp. to convert it to manufacture Zeprex, a porous building material that looks like concrete, and is almost as strong, but can be chopped, sawed, and nailed like wood. Composed of cement, water and chemicals, Zeprex is only one-fifth as heavy as concrete but is said to insulate ten times as well, can be used for making walls, ceilings and floors. Until U.S. production begins early next year, Zeprex will be imported from Sweden, where it was invented...
After three months of furor, the Arena has finally been sold, the group of New York businessmen who have held an option on the property since mid-December. The businessmen will probably convert the St. Botolph Street sports center into a factory...
Ever since 1531, when, according to pious belief, the Virgin of Guadalupe appeared miraculously to a humble convert, Mexico has revered her. Her image, which emerged wondrously on the convert's poor cloak as a sign of the authenticity of his vision, is the country's most honored shrine. Last month, for a huge mural on Mexican theatrical history, ex-Communist Artist Diego Rivera solemnly sketched the famed comedian Cantinflas in his trademark-uniform, a shabby coat, and then drew the Virgin on the coat. "Sacrilege!" protested Mexico's devout, while Rivera, ignoring the uproar, diligently filled...