Word: converting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Giants. The huge U.S. corporations did very nicely. General Motors, No. 1 war contractor, produced during the second quarter a whopping $832,275,000. Its net went up to $36,316,000, almost 50% over last year when G.M. was still struggling to convert to war. (This was still a far cry from the $53,580,000 G.M. made in bonanza 1941.) Bethlehem Steel, No. 2 war baby, gained nearly 10% to earn $6,600,000 on gross billings of $490,000,000. Du Pont, with an 18% increase in sales, turned in a 27% increase in net after paying...
Colonial Secretary Oliver Stanley reached out a cautious leg in the House of Commons last week to foot a ball President Roosevelt had booted his way nine months before. Britain, he said, had decided to convert her colonial empire into a cooperative empire-but it will be an empire still. Oliver Stanley's words were a quieter echo of Churchill's growl last Armistice Day: "I did not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire." Changes in the Empire, it was clear, would have to be gradual...
Stocky, down-to-earth James S. Adams, 45-year-old President of Standard Brands Inc. (Fleischmann's Yeast, Royal Baking Powder, etc.) last week announced that he would ask his 115,000 common stockholders to convert every four shares they now hold into one share of new stock. Brokers raised interested eyebrows: reverse splitting had hardly been heard of on Wall Street since the dog days after the 1929 crash, when some companies used it to give their collapsing shares some semblance of dollar value...
Chiang Wei-kuo, who escorted Wendell Willkie during his visit to China last year, went to Chungking on leave from his army duties. In the Generalissimo's simple home, the family's great & good friend Methodist Bishop W. Y. Chen baptized the convert. He and his Methodist father spent the next day together, in private...
...Open a porch on any side. >Convert a big room into little ones or vice versa...