Word: reconverting
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Every day thousands of Westerners angrily tell each other: "As soon as the European war ends, Eastern business will reconvert. But the West will have to go right on turning out ships and planes. By the time the Jap war is over, the East will have grabbed all our postwar markets-and we'll be flat on our backs...
...Navy plans to reconvert the French liner Normandie (now the U.S.S. Lafayette) into a military vessel were abandoned last spring. She is now lying idle in an unnamed U.S. port. Best guess: the hulk will be turned back to the French after the war, possibly to be rebuilt as a peacetime luxury liner...
Thus Charlie Wilson-despite the fact that he too wanted to quit his war job and reconvert G.E.-had come to seem the villain. And Donald Nelson, fumbling feebly with minuscule moves toward reconversion (he is called "Mr. Next Tuesday" by disgruntled WPBsters) had come to seem the hero of Reconversion...
...corporal's guard of Congressmen straggled back to Washington's steaming midsummer heat. But there was no indication that they would soon agree on a plan to reconvert the U.S. to peace. At week's end, two Senate reconversion bills -significantly differing-had been rushed out of committee rooms and were ready for action on the floor...
...pulling off all the wraps to let industry reconvert to peace? Far from it. Sternly Nelson warned that war production still came first, that "the next three months will in some ways be the most critical we have yet faced...