Word: pre-war
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...allow the gain in industrial output to slump after the war to a figure less of equal to that of pre-war times, we may face many economic complications, including the possibility of a post-war depression, the economics expert said...
...Appointed Francis B. Sayre, pre-war High Commissioner to the Philippines, as Deputy Director of Foreign Relief & Rehabilitation under Herbert H. Lehman. >Decided to lift the ban against nationwide publication of casualty lists, in effect since Pearl Harbor. In this decision, he yielded to the persuasion of Information Director Elmer Davis, who had long resented accusations that the Government was needlessly withholding the cold, hard truth of war...
...rotten spot at the core of the dispute has been the Yugoslav Government-in-Exile, whose hard work has been overshadowed by a stubborn desire to pin down their country to the pre-war status quo. This attitude stands in sharp contrast to that of Norway's Prime Minister Johan Nygaardsvold, who last week in a message to his people outlined post-war reconstruction plans, and added: "The present Government does not do this with any thought that it is to retain power and look after the administration of Norway after the liberation...
...little food and endless work. Russia had lost: >Five million men, killed or maimed. A territory larger than France, Germany and the United Kingdom combined, inhabited by some 77 million people, of whom roughly 39 million, mostly men, were evacuated and resettled. >Sixty percent of the country's pre-war iron & coal output...
...Veronika and millions of her fellow countrymen knew why the Red Armies were relatively well supplied and were winning victories. Veronika knew that: >Much of Soviet industry had been evacuated to the Urals and Siberia, where it was producing more tons of products than all Soviet pre-war industry. >In Magnitogorsk a giant new blast furnace had been blown in, a strange, but fitting, Christmas present from the Russian people to themselves. >Baku oil production was 40% above...