Word: reconvertibles
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...economy had spent three years converting to war. It has had only months, as yet, to reconvert to peace. How long it would be until peacetime production reached its full stride no man knew. Miracles of peacetime production to match the miracles of war production had still to be achieved. But the first crisis of converting to peace had been overcome more swiftly than the first crisis of converting...
...Washington, the planning had been an off-again-on-again affair. It was off after the Battle of the Bulge, on at the Battle of Germany. Hastily, WPBoss Julius A. Krug had unwrapped the Government's overall plan. In its broad outlines, it was a plan to reconvert cautiously, to pluck the web of controls from industry a strand at a time, allocate materials, fix production quotas for the period between VE and V-J days. What businessmen said about this privately was often unprintable. They did not want to be led from war to peace; they wanted...
After twelve weeks of horsetrading, the U.S. this week set out solid terms for a loan to Britain. Washington thought the British, anxious for dollars with which to reconvert their economy to peace, would accept. The terms...
Britain could have the $5 billion loan she needs to reconvert her war economy, and she could have 55 years...
...Twosome. In the race to reconvert, short, balding Nash Russ, president of Taylorcraft Aviation Corp., had delivered his first civilian plane just two weeks after V-J day. Taylorcraft's Alliance, Ohio plant is now turning out 15 a day of its single model, the Twosome ($2,295), hopes to boost production to 50 a day by year's end. By then, Mr. Russ also hopes to be in production of a new model, a four-place, 127-m.p.h. plane. Price...