Word: converting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Trojan-horse scare which swept over South America, the Quincy was hailed, a little extravagantly, as Washington's answer to the discovery of a Nazi plan for military occupation of Uruguay (TIME, June 24). That plan, a Uruguayan Congressional investigating committee asserted, had been calculated to convert "our nation into a country of peasants...
...Enthusiasts" are two: quiet Mr. Smith, an engineer of London, exposer of the Protocols of Zion, tenacious fighter in many curious circumstances for justice to the Jews; and Liselotte Lewy, rich Viennese, sufferer by accident with Socialist workers shelled by the Heimwehr in 1934, convert to Communism, zealot of a happy collective farm, who even in the New Order fails to escape the old persecution...
...Shipbuilding & Dry-dock Co.) bid-o build destroyers in 18 months instead A 24. The Du Fonts ar ranged to build and operate a big powder plant financed by the French and British (see p. 79). Chrysler Corp. was ready to produce bomb fuses, shell forgings. was prepared to convert plant space of World War I vintage to other munitions production. Aged (73) Tank-Designer Walter Christie popped up in Washington with plans for a tank to be hooked to an airplane and landed ready for combat. Aircraftsman Glenn Martin in Baltimore declared that all the established industry needs...
...conceived, means infinitely more than the easy gestures which your opponents are so eager to provide. Yours will be a course even more unpopular in the months to come than it is new, a course in which you must prepare to act as sufferers who will probably fail to convert any of the opposition. I know, however, that you can count on the support of some of your elders. And I know that when you find something worth your efforts, you are all capable of the utmost loyalty. John Bovey '35, Instructor in English...
...Ford than they did about Darius, were surprised. Pope was asked to do it again before the Cabinet. The Prime Minister, who became the Shah that year, was so impressed that he gave Pope permission to ransack the art treasures of the country. Pope, sometimes disguised as a Moslem convert, has photographed and collected art works in every part of Persia. Back in Europe and the U. S. he wrote, talked, boomed Persian art incessantly...