Word: converting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thus far there was no single U.S. head. The President still preferred to delegate problems individually. Meanwhile Beaverbrook's effectiveness deeply impressed many White House advisers. (Particularly bowled over was OPM's William Knudsen, who had long agreed with U.S. automobile companies that they were unable to convert more than 15% of their plant to war production, had always suggested slow, costly building of new plants. Lord Beaverbrook, who had been told the same thing by British automen, told Knudsen that auto-plant conversion in Britain...
...shame and humble every American on the home front. . . . Too much has been said, too many tears shed about the loss of a few ships and some scores of planes at Pearl Harbor. . . . Too little has been said about the much worse blunder of failing a year ago to convert automotive and other peace industries to defense production. By that failure we have lost a thousand planes and tanks and ships for every one lost at Pearl Harbor...
...breaks. Production almost-as-usual in January will also give the automakers breathing time to convert. A year ago "not over 5%" of Detroit's machinery could be used for munitions making; now some Detroit engineers think 50-75% of their machinery can be useful. Last week auto and parts makers set up the Automotive Council for War Production, announced its sole purpose was "pushing the industry's war work to the limit" through joint research, patent exchange, pooled facilities...
...when fats for soapmaking were scarce, German chemists again tried in earnest to concoct soapless soaps. Real success did not come until after the war, when they developed the sodium alkyl sulfates. Production of these substances was not practical until the 1930s, after techniques were developed which could convert fats to fatty alcohols under pressures of 10,000 to 15,000 lb. per sq. in.-100 times the pressures which were once tops in industry...
Biggest of the new C ships is the C3, (11,975 tons) which can clip along at 17 knots. The U.S. has taken over seven of the 18 C-3s built to date, to convert into small aircraft carriers for the Navy and Great Britain. Conversion takes only about four months. One of the C-3s, now the U.S.S. Long Island (see cut), is already...