Word: prewar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four-year layoff. And Savitt had forced him to play the best tennis of his career to pull out the match. As he faced Hoad it seemed improbable that he could be that good again. But he was. Watching him took spectators back to the golden days of prewar tournaments, to Tilden and Vines and Budge, to Perry. Crawford and Cochet...
...CHINESE TOBACCO is threatening U.S. overseas markets. Communists have hiked production almost 200% since prewar days, are currently exporting 100 million Ibs. annually of flue-cured leaf, more than 20% of U.S. total...
Takikawa. wearing a floppy white hat and open-necked shirt against the hot Kyushu sun. promised to let the myths fall where they may. "Prewar history taught in the schools has been discarded as false," he explained. "A race which loses its history becomes a rudderless ship. That's the dangerous position Japan is in today. To get out of it, the Japanese must look facts in the face." To the local citizens who have always considered themselves heaven-sent. Takikawa bluntly said: "We will not distort or slant our findings to please you. If this sounds cold...
...America, Southeast Asia and the Middle East. But, argued Ishibashi, "the result has not been satisfactory enough to induce the Japanese to give up Communist China." Said he: "Segregation of the China market has been the major factor contributing to the changes in Japan's trade pattern from prewar...
...While prewar Greek ships were sorrylooking rustbuckets, Niarchos has turned out some of the handsomest merchantmen afloat. To get top seamen, Niarchos pays his Italian, Greek, German and British crews more than they would earn under their own national flags (but less than one-third of the U.S. scale), equips his new tankers with air conditioning, lavish private quarters for all hands, tiled showers, TV, elevators, recreation rooms...