Word: prewar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...employees), with holdings in 35 other companies, and has so much money to spend that it wields a potent influence on Italy's press and among its politicians. In the development field, it has expanded Italy's production of methane to almost 100 times the prewar total, a noteworthy achievement. But as sn oil producer, E.N.I, has been a bungling flop. Where it has bored only dry holes and left, private explorers later found oil; so far, E.N.I, has raised only one gusher-in the promising Abruzzi area-and that by edging up close and spudding into...
...quickly noted that many of the items on display were products that Japan herself is trying to peddle abroad, and especially to China, e.g., radios, sewing machines, surgical instruments. This raised Japanese fears that the Chinese Communists mean to compete with Japanese industry, instead of resuming China's prewar practice of swapping its raw materials for Japanese manufactured goods. Chinese consumer goods at cutthroat prices have already turned up in Southeast Asian markets...
...crowds of West Germans circulating amidst the gleaming chromium and tingling scent of new leather at Frankfurt's 37th International Automobile Show last week, there was much to be proud of. Flashy B.M.W.'s and new models of such prewar favorites as the Mercedes showed plainly why the revived German automobile industry is gobbling up more and more (21.6%) of the world's export markets...
Blackstone Boulevard. Ohio's project was inspired largely by the phenomenal success of the prewar Pennsylvania Turnpike. Yet the state legislature voted against it in 1947, approved it in 1949 by a single Senate vote only after bitter debate...
...details the higher levels of productivity that are the hope of the rest of the world. From 1939 to 1954, the number of U.S. farm workers declined from 11.5 to 8.5 million-yet productivity of U.S. acreage has increased by 47%. Corn yields have increased from the prewar 1.6 tons per hectare (2,471 acres) to an average 2.4 tons...