Word: pre-war
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...Europeans, integration is a wonderful ideal, but at the moment is very impractical. Their leaders have been working to restore industry on its pre-war basis. Their attention is focused on national improvement, and no politician will do anything that will temporarily disrupt his country's economy, even if it is for the long run good...
There are 341 residents of Leverett right now, and this number will be maintained next year. This figure is more than pre-war level, but the extra men are spaced evenly throughout the House so that no suite has more than one man over the number it was originally built to accommodate...
General Eichelberger is back at the old pitch, selling us a friendly, westernized, peace-loving Japan-a country of "know-how men." His spiel is no better than the pre-war brand. Aside from his neat logical fallacy in trying to destroy "war potential" and at the same time wanting to build up an army, he has ignored several other problems. One is the group of Japanese industrialists who saw the last war as a fine chance to pick up some markets and raw material sources. They are still in business. Another is the very reasonable doubt that five years...
...European Recovery Program --ERP-- has reconstructed Rouen and France and a large part of Western Europe. It has helped jump European industrial output 15 percent over pre-war levels; hiked farm production nearly as much. ERP officials say their aid has been our chief weapon against communism. Congress now has a bill extending the program for another year. It should be passed...
This system of appointment would avoid the chance of the "packed house" which might occur if the Dean were picking his own student advisors, and also evades the possibility of a "closed corporation" of mutual friends such as occurred in pre-war years when the Council chose many of its own members. This appointed advisory board would not be a representative group, but it does not need to be. For it would merely investigate student opinion; it would not purport to represent all students on any matter of University policy...