Word: converting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...million to convert wartime barracks into veterans' housing...
...present rate, nothing will be left by September. Two of the loan's agreements add to the-dollar drain: 1) the "nondiscrimination" clause, which forces the British to buy goods in the U.S., for dollars, which they might get elsewhere more expensively but for pounds; 2) the "sterling convertibility" clause, which forces the British to convert into dollars some of the sterling credits held by foreigners (TIME, June 2). Attlee hoped to get both these clauses revised...
...polo's elders 13 years ago by putting on 50? polo matches complete with soda pop. Now he dipped into his Standard Oil millions and came up with a $5,000 purse for a handicap tournament-the first cash prize ever offered in polo. His ambition is to convert polo into a mass-appeal sport in which a man can make a living from his winnings...
...Convert. John Taber, by now unusually quiet, hit the Marshall-Lovett trail. A convert, he converted others. His committee reported the bill out to the House with only a few exceptions.† Taber even timed the bill carefully to ensure its passage on the floor. The House had droned through a tedious day of picky objections to the agriculture appropriation bill. It was 6:40 p.m. and the members were tired, hot and bored when Taber brought up the foreign aid appropriation. Sixty-four minutes later Speaker Joe Martin gaveled it through to a voice vote. There were only...
...Card. Another possible drain on "Loan" dollars begins this week as Britain becomes obliged to convert into dollars some of the sterling credits held by foreigners (TIME, June...