Word: converted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hong Kong -Calcutta -Karachi BOAC route was inevitably a temptation to smugglers. Hong Kong, for example, makes no check of outgoing baggage. And India, with its stable rupee and a middle class that likes to convert its savings into solid-gold jewelry for safekeeping (and dowries), has been the world's best market for contraband gold for centuries...
...Bennett resolutely published under the German guns after even the government had fled, the Herald for three decades played the role of society paper for expatriates, subject to Bennett's iron whim (without giving a reason, he ordered a letter from an "old Philadelphia lady," inquiring how to convert centigrade readings to Fahrenheit,* reprinted daily for 18 years...
...light-collecting window in Vanguard I, which still draws in enough energy to keep the tiny satellite busily broadcasting 17 months after it was launched). At 22,000 m.p.h., the new 142-lb. satellite went into orbit (rotating 171 times a minute), and the cells began to convert sunlight into electricity...
...anything negotiated would also require U.S. Senate approval. Such a deal is simply not in the cards. What the new trend in Big Twoness does foreshadow is the possibility of an ever-growing mutual exploration conducted in public of each other's ways. Neither side could hope to convert the other, but more realistic diplomatic dealings may be possible once that pragmatic fellow, Nikita Khrushchev, sees for himself that the U.S. is big, prosperous, and growing, as well as friendly to those who do not menace her, and unitedly resolute toward those...
SALTWATER CONVERSION plant will be built near Houston, Texas by Government to convert more than a million gallons of sea water daily into scarce fresh water for city and Dow Chemical Co. Plant will be finished by early 1961 at cost of $1.5 million, is first of five to be authorized (total cost: $10 million) in the search for economic methods of conversion...