Word: reconverts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...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...