Word: pre-war
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...depreciation, for he regulates prices strictly on the basis of dollar exchange values, putting the capital thus obtained into new investments and repeating the process ad infinitum. Thus coal costs 69,000 times its pre-War cost. Wages paid by Stinnes before the War were 17 cents an hour. Under the present scale wages are between seven and ten cents per hour, thus halving his pre-War costs of production...
Guards' Parade. In the presence of the Princes August Wilhelm and Oscar and the ex-Crown Princess, a parade of the Imperial Guard in full pre-War splendor took place at Potsdam ? a town just outside Berlin, where the Kaiser had his principal palace. The occasion was the unveiling of a monument to the memory of fallen members of the Imperial Guard...
...astonishing thing about them is that they are so mild. So very mild. The book might have been written by almost any bright young gentleman who chose to model his style on that of E. V. Lucas. Did you ever think you were about to degust a genuine pre-War cocktail and then discover as you swallowed that the beverage was strictly...
...attack on Czecho-Slovakia goes farther. In the peace settlement Hungary lost 119,847 square miles of land, or over two-thirds of her territory, together with her richest mining districts and nearly 3,500,000 Magyars, or about one-third of her pre-war Magyar population. To this must be added the fact that Hungary was less guilty in the events that led up to the outbreak of the War than was any other of the Central Powers. Yet she has suffered more severely than any of the late enemy countries...
Engaged. Baroness Marie von Friedlander-Fuld von Kuhlmann, one of the greatest pre-war German heiresses and divorced wife of the Foreign Minister (von Kuhlmann) who signed the treaty of Brest-Litovsk, to Erich Goldschmidt-Rothschild, scion of the only remaining German branch of the Rothschild family...