Word: convert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weeks after he took over, the Pentagon decided to convert the 82nd into one of the first two U.S. airborne divisions. To show his men what paratrooping might be like, Ridgway, who had no particular airborne qualifications, hied himself to Fort Benning to make a parachute jump. "It was the most glorious feeling in the world," he told the dubious infantrymen. "You feel like the lord of creation floating way up above the earth...
...Antolin finds Madrid a city swamped in extremes of poverty and black-market corruption, ruled by ubiquitous police, in & out of uniform. His own family drives him to alternating spells of despair and disgust. Señora Luisa, his wife, has become a stranger, ugly, shrewish, and a convert to the rage for spiritualism in which many of the poor seek a solace they cannot find in the church. Juan, the younger son, is an underpaid factory worker and a Communist. Daughter Amelia, frightened, hypocritical and ill, wants only enough money to buy her way into a convent and escape...
Since the Korean war, there has been a tremendous increase in the world demand for gold. Last June, most of the free world, thanks largely to Marshall Plan funds, was close to stabilizing its currencies. Gold hoarders had begun to convert the hidden metal into hard currencies; the price of gold in both free and black markets had dropped close to the official $35 rate (TIME, June...
...hold on to their E bonds by continuing the interest after maturity. If they keep the bonds for ten more years, they will collect an average annual interest of 2.9%. As an alternative for those who want to collect on their bonds every year, Snyder would permit them to convert their E bonds to G bonds, which pay 1¼% interest every six months. At week's end a bill was sent to Congress to write the plan into...
...German submarine, let fly with a torpedo. The explosion shook the island up a bit but it failed to deflect the inhabitants from the pursuit of customs stemming back to the time of Saint Columba, who is said to have stopped off at Inishmurray on his way to convert Scotland to Christianity...