Word: convert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foreign-exchange speculators, the decision for a free dollar was a temporary setback. If they rushed in to convert their money back to U.S. cash, the Canadian dollar might fall below 90? and they would take a loss. Their best bet now was to sit tight and wait for the Canadian dollar to show what it could do. This week, a few hours after trading opened, it was selling at 94½? in New York, 95? in Montreal and 96½? in London...
Prominently featured in the Chinese section were six paintings by a non-convert named Chang Chao-ho, who has been commissioned to illustrate the Church's first full translation of the Bible into Chinese. To him, as to Korean Sculptor Kim Chong Young, the Madonna was an almond-eyed lady in a flowing kimono. A Maori artist decked her in a long grass skirt. African carvers made her a Negro, often barebreasted, sometimes put heavy coils of beads round her neck. Indo-Chinese versions of the Madonna were apt to resemble the Buddhist goddess of Mercy, Kuan...
...cupboard is a high priority program known as "phantom orders." These orders, with a current value of $900 million, are full purchase contracts, written up to the last detail, explained to the manufacturer and then locked in his safe. It would take only a telegram from Washington to convert the phantom into a real order and start the goods-machine tools -moving down the production line...
...continue work on an 18-by-17-ft. mural for Harvard University's new graduate center. The mural, he says hopefully, "will enable me to establish close contact with the students, the young men of tomorrow. It is better to influence the young generation than to try to convert stubborn...
Since war's end, the economic health of the world's currencies has been measured by the fever chart of unofficial gold prices. As people lost faith in their currencies and the financial condition of their countries, they scrambled to convert paper money into gold. The price of gold in India, China, Greece and other nations rose as high as $70 an ounce, v. the official rate...