Word: prewar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pint of wine. Workers can go to free vacation camps on the Italian Riviera; their children can go to the Italian Alps in summertime, while retired oldsters can spend their waning years in a free home at Iduno, near Lake Como. As individual productivity has gone up to double prewar records, Pirelli has rewarded his workers with repeated pay boosts, pushed their real wages up 96% in eight years, v. a 28% rise in Italy's cost of living. Result: for the first time Pirelli workers can afford motor scooters, TV sets, even small cars...
...general popular support for New Deal measures, vigorously denied any intent to turn back the clock, the old guard was strong enough heavily to color the positions and pronouncements of their party. As a result, the presence of a general agreement on the essentials of public policy in the prewar years was not apparent in the official party positions. On the contrary, in the late 1930's and the early 1940's, just before our entry into World War II, the political arena bristled with sharply contested divisions between the leadership of the two parties along the entire range...
Jason, despite this psychiatric documentation, is a likable and lively character, the book a pleasant and intimate chronicle of prewar and through-war living. Balchin, one of the most skilled of Britain's popular storytellers, has a fine, spare ear for the speech and the manners of that kind of Englishman who can accuse one another of cowardice, dishonesty or moral turpitude without raising their voices, missing a mouthful of lunch, or disturbing the even tenor of their friendship...
Alarmed at last, Premier Faure sent an emissary to Poujade to try to buy him off, with money from the secret funds French Premiers have always used to buy off trouble (as Colonel François de la Rocque of the prewar Croix de Feu was bought off). Faure's offer (according to Poujade) was $280,000 and a seat on the Economic Council of the Republic. Poujade refused. Belatedly the government brought suit against him for "organization of collective refusal to pay taxes." With this authority, detectives rummaged through Poujade's files, ransacked his offices, tapped...
...Japanese silkmen had to change their ways drastically. Their prewar silk fabric was imperfectly woven, poorly dyed, usable only for cheap kimonos, etc. U.S. dressmakers rarely used Japan's silks, preferring the higher quality fabrics of European weavers...