Word: converting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Maybe an old time cover-to-cover reader will tell a comparatively recent newsstand convert what to do on meeting an asterisk...
...bill its member states. Last week League accountants agreed that "this was certainly the most expensive conference ever held." The British Government has already paid $100,000 to compensate the League "for the additional cost of holding the Conference in London rather than at Geneva," spent $38,000 to convert London's new Geological Museum to the Conference's use (TIME, June 19). The Guild Hall banquet to the Conference cost $10,000 and His Majesty's Government estimated last week that $250,000 had been spent on official hospitality. With every Great Power spending more than...
...Lord Tilbury, looking down, saw that a portion of her afternoon meal, in the shape of an appetizing potato, had been dislodged from the main convert and had rolled out of bounds. It was this that was causing the silver medalist's distress and despondency. Like all prize pigs who take their career seriously, Empress of Blandings hated to miss anything that might be eaten and converted into firm flesh...
...state of mind in which they preferred francs or pounds to dollars. They would therefore prefer, he reasoned, sterling bonds paying a low rate of interest to dollar bonds with a higher rate. Abruptly Chancellor Chamberlain offered holders of British 5½% "gold dollar" bonds the option to convert them into sterling bonds paying only...
...Chamberlain's proposal it took more than $4.85 in depreciated dollars to buy an English pound. He offered to convert at a rate of $3.85-thus giving a premium of one dollar in every pound to bondholders willing to convert. This premium, Mr. Chamberlain told the House of Commons, would be paid because of His Majesty's Government's "moral obligation" to compensate holders of the bonds injured by the U. S. Congress' cancellation of their "gold clause." Up from a Labor bench popped Sir Stafford Cripps. "This is the first time," he shouted, "that...