Word: pre-war
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...longer a question merely of insufficient income, as practically without exception their operations were showing substantial deficits. During the period of government operation these deficits were assumed by the government and the railroad owners received a rental based on their average not income for the three pre-war years...
...drop in prices to the pre-war level is to be expected during the next ten years, in the opinion of the University Committee on Economic Research, said Professor C. J. Bullock, chairman of the committee, speaking last night at the first session of a national conference of subscribers to the Harvard Economic Service, held at the Harvard Club of Boston...
...plausible inference that prices must return to a pre-war normal has frequently been drawn from the fact that prices have reverted to their former level after previous periods of currency inflation in the early and middle nineteenth century. The Harvard Committee, however, cannot accept this conclusion, for it cannot find that the governing conditions exist today which brought about lower price levels in the past...
...pays to advertise" and England needs money. Her old pre-war commerce is no longer, and yet as a manufacturing nation she must have trade. The result of this need is the "S. S. British Trade", a new departure in the annals of shipping as well as of advertising. Built especially for the purpose, she will tour the world, carrying on board the representatives of about two hundred firms and samples of their commodities,--a county fair on shipboard, or a floating Heinz pier let loose from Atlantic City moorings...
Oxford, too, has its Fitzgerald. "Patchwork" by Beverly Nichols, the publishers (Henry Holt) tell us, will do for the pre-war Oxford what "This Side of Paradise" did for Princeton...