Word: pre-war
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...instead. In Chicago wholesale houseware sales fell off because of the metals shortage (aluminum, nickel, copper). For the same reason Westinghouse dropped three models of refrigerators. (In Manhattan Canada's Controller of Metals reported that Britain's civil use of aluminum had dropped to 2% of its pre-war volume...
...Just getting back to the pre-war level...
...London Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden invited Hungarian Minister Georges de Barcza to pay him a call. Mr. Eden suavely ticked off Hungary with "sympathetic understanding" of Hungary's embarrassing position-but he warned that if Britain wins the war Hungary will pay. By week's end the pre-war Rumanian-British friendship had run its course to overt enmity. After the rupture of diplomatic relations (TIME, Feb. 17) the British Board of Trade announced that all goods of Rumanian origin, destination or ownership henceforth would be considered enemy contraband...
...analyzes how bitterly those traits and patterns were intensified under the hell of Reconstruction; in what anger, hope and innocence the great wave of cotton mills rose up; how the mill hands were exploited in the name of patriotism and progress; how these iron plantations perpetuated the ancient pre-War patterns of the soil...
...dead are sworn enemies, that the archenemies of living hope are the indifferent, "the stultifying, the living dead." This fervently stated theme is worked out too intricately in personal terms to make much general sense. But the work-out is an uncommonly searching and sordid study of three middleclass, pre-war Britons...