Word: prewar
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...streets are choked with gaudily painted, bell-tingling pedicabs, with tiny, pony-drawn gharries, with stray livestock and rickety prewar Fords and Chevrolets, all cowed by the horn-blasting Packards, Cadillacs and Mercedes of government officials, black marketeers, Chinese and European traders. The near chaos of Djakarta's streets is symptomatic of the near chaos-economic, political and social-of the whole republic...
...denationalized industry was posted. Year-end reports showed that steel, denationalized by the Tories after they took power three years ago, was doing much better than the government-run coal mines and railroads. Steel output last year hit an alltime high of 18.5 million tons, 43% over the prewar rate, and production schedules released last week estimated production at about 19.5 million tons this year and 21 million...
...gets cold, and the roads get icy, they'll have to stay indoors. Maybe that will stop them." Poujade got his movement started when tax collectors came to his village in Southern France a year and a half ago. Pou jade, an ex-stevedore, professional bicycle rider and prewar Fascist-party politician who fled to England and fought in the R.A.F. during the war, was a municipal councillor. The villagers asked him for help. Poujade sympathized: "I cheat on my taxes, and I always have. I couldn't get by otherwise," he told them. He organized his first...
...struggling prewar days, Tito frequently found sanctuary from the King's police in Dedijer's house. In the terrible wartime days as a partisan fighter against the Nazis, Dedijer watched his first wife die in combat at his side, and was so shot up himself that a large part of his skull is surgical silver. After the war he edited the official party newspaper, Borba, sat in the Yugoslav delegation in the U.N., and generally proved himself one of the most promising of the brash and brave young revolutionaries. He eloquently supported Tito's break with Stalin...
...with their foreign exchange the inexperienced Indonesians bought thousands of automobiles for their government officials, air-conditioned cars and diesel engines for a railroad system that was pulling only half its normal amount of freight. The world market fell and Indonesia was left with a monetary inflation 25 times prewar level...