Word: pre-war
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...closing, Major Pechkoff particularly emphasized the fact that this work must go on, in order to stabilize economic and industrial conditions in Europe, and that the nations of the world must stand together and see to it that France be brought back to a pre-war basis by the immediate reconstruction of all damaged areas...
...tickets read only to Cologne, and we changed trains here and arranged for a sleeper from Dusseldorf. The station was dirtier than in pre-war times, and the train was late enough to make us feel at home. Service was good, and an English-speaking porter who helped us to start our three trunks of paper samples through in bond, tried to return half the well earned tip that we gave him. The first-class car that we entered here was clean, and newly and attractively upholstered, both seat-coverings and curtains being of paper fabric, as in nearly...
...most hopeful of the return toward pre-war "normalcy" is the collapse of the long-threatened British general strike. Organized labor, headed curiously enough by the miners, has now definitely repudiated the idea, to the great relief of the harrassed public. The reason seems to be not so much dissension in the ranks of Labor as a growing conviction that the ballot is after all the best means of gaining desired ends. The English mind is by nature and inheritance inclined to the use of constitutional means; English Parliamentary methods are well adapted for expressing the will of the people...
...traded on the New York Stock Exchange and New York bank clearings having fallen from the December levels. The average price of industrial stocks, on the other hand, showed some improvement. Commercial paper rates rose somewhat, the change in this case being the result of the correction for normal pre-war seasonal variation. it seems probable, however, that the federal reserve system has a stabilizing influence on commercial rates, so that seasonal variations are now less than they were in pre-war times. Actual average rates in January were a shade lower than in December...
...which the war has interrupted. Last spring the many breaches of athletic discipline" which shocked a large number of former Harvard letter-men were attributed largely to the lapse which made such a gap in the customs of Soldiers Field. "Mike" seemed to be the only connecting link between "pre-war" and "present...