Word: prewar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...copper, and to date the only completely satisfactory substitute is silver, costing 90? an ounce. Copper is essential to automobile production; each new car takes an average 24 Ibs., or a total of 10% of all the copper used in the nation. U.S. builders are putting more copper than prewar into home construction, and the average $20,000 copper-wired, copper-piped house uses about $400 worth of the metal...
JAPANESE TRADE CARTELS, broken up by the Allied occupation authorities, are fast coming back. Mitsui Bussan, Japan's biggest prewar trading firm, has regrouped itself from its two biggest post-occupation splinter companies, now controls 18% (about $450 million) of Japan's total foreign trade-about the same as the prewar Mitsui Bussan...
...government were his solid gold and silver temple, a fortress filled with jewels, all his palaces but one, three-fourths of his private possessions. The royal herd of 200 elephants melted down to a mere dozen or so, and only a dozen polo ponies remain from his prewar champion string of 100. Even so, the maharaja still manages to make ends meet...
...Motors in Z933 produced the first modern, lightweight diesel. It took World War II to ignite the real development of diesel power. G.M. turned out diesel trucks, tractors, power plants and locomotives by the thousands, provided the U.S. Navy with more diesel power than the entire horsepower of the prewar fleet. Since the war. the diesel has completed its conquest of U.S. railroads. Diesel locomotives now haul 86% of all rail passengers, 84% of all freight, save the railroads $600 million a year in fuel and maintenance. Fifty Class I railroads today are without a single steam engine...
...sentries checked in at the guardhouse on their rounds, the intruders overpowered them and trussed them up. "Consider yourselves prisoners of war," said the leader of the commando gang. The raiders were members of the Irish Republican Army, that outlawed, audacious nationalistic group which, in prewar days, used to plant time bombs in the British mails to reinforce its demand for the unification of Ireland. Swiftly, they went to work, loading rifles, Sten guns, light machine guns and 200,000 rounds of ammunition into a fleet of cars that rolled in through the main gate, then vanished into the night...