Word: post-war
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...candidate concluded on a high post-war note...
...war, [the Government] will not be influenced by any changes affected in and since 1938." It was most welcome because neither the Atlantic Charter nor last June's British-Russian Agreement* have cooled the jingoistic fires over which Europe's exiled governments in London hash and rehash post-war boundary lines. The Czech hash has always included Sudetenland, which the Munich Agreement bestowed on Germany...
Reflecting the official attitude is the explanation of Assistant Dean Philip Hofer, who stated, "The Business School is aware that the present development of aeronautical sciences because of the war means a new concept of post-war transportation. We feel that every phase of American economic life and world economy will be affected by this new factor. Our job is to train men to cope adequately with the problems which will inevitably develop. The projected air research and training program will do exactly that...
...inherited two headaches: food scarcities, caused by a year's British blockade, and a Syrian mistrust of anyone who spoke French. For the first headache the British supplied an antidote in shipments of wheat, rice, coffee. For the second headache General Catroux had a prescription: a promise of post-war independence. But to President Attasi the Fighting French were political nobodies; he refused to negotiate with them. Ousting Attasi and his ministers, Catroux named as president a Syrian whose chief virtue was his willingness to negotiate: Mohammed Tageddine el Hassani. A flimsy, stopgap government, el Hassani...
...amazed at the interest expressed by the students in the post-war ideas of his boss, Henry Luce, and got "Life" to offer prizes for an essay contest, the subject being based on Luce's plans...