Word: converting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...George V's subjects realized how fast their Government is rushing forward with its program of rearmed Might. Acutely vexed by this program is Giles Stephen Holland Fox-Strangways, 6th Earl of Ilchester, Baron Ilchester and Strangways. His hobby is swans and the Government has decided to convert a great tract scarcely four miles from Ilchester's famed swannery at Abbotsbury into a nerve-racking "bombing range." It has also decided to turn much of his property in Dorset into one of the world's most powerful air bases...
Piecing the tale together from the débris of sloppy obscurantism, childish motivation and antique methods of dramatic narration, reviewers found a fairly simple story: Quin Hanna, "an unscrupulous idealist," goes to a small New England town which for no good reason he decides to convert into a small-bore Utopia, marries a wealthy but vague young woman whom he does not love, gets sick of it, her and himself, is about to decamp when his wife dies. But no matter how frantically the actors called each other harsh names, slapped each other's faces, revealed their inmost...
...Treasury Morgenthau was vacationing last week but Acting Secretary Thomas Jefferson Coolidge admitted that the offer was "dragging." However, said he. "on this market we'll get our normal amount. The market was good today and the conversion is profitable, which means that the big fellows will convert." Sure enough, the Treasury received $995,000,000 of Liberties under its offer even before final figures were in "Successful!" said Thomas Jefferson Coolidge...
...piled up bank loans of $70,000,000. During the past few years the company has whittled this figure down to about $57,000,000 but Anaconda's balance sheet is still enough to give a banker the jitters. Proceeds of the bond issue will be used to convert the loans into long-term indebtedness, thus reducing Anaconda's current liabilities to pleasing proportions...
There is also a strong possibility that Carr will convert several of his halfbacks, including Daniel E. Burbank, Jr. '37 and Theodore P. Robie, leader of the 1938 Freshmen, to attacking roles...