Word: reconverting
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...glut the postwar market. "If we let manufacturers loose now to produce as much as they want to," he said, "I don't know what we would do at the end of the war." (Behind this fear was another one which constantly agitates WPBigwigs: that an early-bird reconvert would get an unfair jump on his competitors unless his production were restricted to his share of the prewar market...
...about 18 months the Army, Navy and other war procurement agencies have quick-fingered a hot potato that never grew cool. The problem: How could U.S. war contracts be ended uniformly and quickly so that the industrial plant could speedily shift from one war product to another and reconvert without waste motion...
...Woman Pays. Tiremaker Burke had been watching the industrial situation closely. He saw a pinch coming soon in tiremaking facilities. Last month he hustled to Washington, convinced WPB that it would be wise to cancel the lease and reconvert The Kelly to tires. Other ordnance plants took on The Kelly's orders, and just 12 days after the deal was made, the first workers were laid off. Within two weeks, the layoffs will jump to 2,000, will crescendo until, in three weeks, the payroll will be slashed approximately 75%, leaving the basic staff needed to install tiremaking equipment...
...economy is, under the war program, undergoing a drastic distortion. It will be necessary to reconvert it back to normal civilian output. This task of reconversion back to normal should be undertaken as rapidly as possible...
...meat lost some protein value in the drying. In the dehydration, the meat is exposed to great heat, practically precooked, then put into dry air to drive off at least 90% of the moisture. It must be vacuum-packed in tin cans until other packaging can be found. To reconvert the dry, powdery meat, it is soaked in water for an hour, boiled ten minutes, simmered for 10-20 minutes...