Despite his commitment to war, Harold was ready to be converted to peacetime uses.
He spent some time during the war gathering intelligence, and the Runners thought to put his skills to peacetime use.
Conservatives see a good peacetime use for the military; liberals are pleased that scarce Federal dollars go to a social service program.
The fighters and bombers were of little peacetime use, although some were sold.
Wartime experience with those stations showed that the concept held great promise for peacetime use.
Some say it was a mistake not to plan years ago for a conversion to peacetime uses of military installations.
Like surplus k-rations, the bomb plutonium would seem to be available for peacetime use.
It began exploring peacetime uses of atomic energy, but abandoned the effort when cold-war military spending took off.
"But the earth blaster is for peacetime use," Tom protested.
Although microwave telephones had been used for wartime applications, this was the first peacetime use of this technology.