Word: pre-war
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...Sept. 21, 1917, 65 steel executives, whose prices had soared that summer to 370% of the pre-war level, met with the new War Industries Board in Washington. Before them lay a schedule of lower prices which the Board had worked out. Judge Elbert H. Gary of U. S. Steel addressed Judge Robert S. Lovett of the Board. "May I ask," asked he, "by what authority the War Industries Board has undertaken to fix these prices...
...pre-war China's 457,000,000 people, only 32,000 were college students. But their importance was out of all proportion to their numbers. Like the graduates of Britain's Oxford and Cambridge, China's university men monopolized Government offices, ruled China's millions. Active, patriotic, brave, they were the hope of the New China...
...foresighted Chancellor Chang Poling had started to build several years before the Japanese invasion, were fully equipped, new greystone preparatory and postgraduate schools. At Kunming was great new Southwest Associated University, with 90 buildings. To these and other centres China had moved 77 universities all told. Out of its pre-war total of 108 colleges and universities, it has saved 91, added four new ones...
Exports were way up: 51% ahead of the first quarter of 1939. But they were not up enough to lead the U. S. economy into a boom. Instead of booming, business activity (as measured by the Federal Reserve Board production index) backed & filled at the pre-war level, between 100 and 105% of the 1923-25 average. In certain industries, the war export market caused peak production, a real strain on capacity. But by & large, these were the industries that needed the stimulus least...
...pre-war days life for St. Petersburg's upper crust was a wild melee of tempestuous music and passionate romance. From these Director Dreville has compounded "Kreutzer Sonata." As in Tolstoy's story the characters are carefree debauchees who tinkle champagne glasses to Beethoven's music. Thus Jean Yonnel, as Dimitri Pozdnycheff the irrestible rake, makes eyes at his creditor's wife while that gentleman removes the furniture, and reforms by going home to make love to the country lasses. American tabloid readers can fill in the rest of the plot: true love, questioned virtue, and a scheming horse-faced...