Word: reconverts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
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...
That was not all. To help manufacturing firms reconvert to peacetime production as quickly as possible, all machinery used in the production of manufactured goods would immediately be taken off the 8% sales-tax list...