Word: hards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they had rounded the corner to economic recovery. Time & again, they have found that just around the corner was another crisis. In the face of each new crisis, Britons worked harder than ever before; industrial production boomed to 40% above the prewar level. But Britain was finding it increasingly hard to get dollars in exchange for its sweat and toil...
...suits made of plastic fabrics and dolls that could take a swig from a milk bottle, blow bubbles and weep realistic tears. A group of British models displayed highly exportable bathing suits. Britain's Socialist government begged British businessmen to get in there and pitch a good, hard, competitive game. The New Statesman and Nation's Sagittarius drove the point home on a high and clarion note...
...trouble: Britain was falling down badly when it came to salesmanship. It was easy to arrange a trade fair-however dazzling-and wait for buyers to show up. The British might have done better if, in addition to holding their fair, they had sent an army of hard-hitting salesmen to invade the U.S. Many fine old British industries, such as pottery and cutlery, which do a steady but limited trade with the U.S., often have no sales program; they merely wait for orders. Other enterprises send salesmen abroad who do not know their way around the U.S. market...
Into Athens' Constitution Square rumbled a bus full of wounded Greek soldiers. They waved their crutches jauntily, sang hearty peasant songs and enjoyed the warm spring weather. After a hard winter, the city's heavy-scented orange blossoms were out at last. And in their rugged mountains, the stubborn Communist guerrillas at last seemed to be weakening...
Clearly, the Reds were hard-pressed. In the Peloponnesos they had been wiped out or driven so far back into their lairs that the mopping-up job could be left to the gendarmerie and peasants. Lieut. General James A. Van Fleet's U.S. military mission reported that in 1948 the Communists had lost 33,000 men by death, capture and desertion. "This," said Van Fleet, "is a report of success. However, I want to caution against too much optimism...