Word: prewar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Contested every four years, the Rimet Cup in prewar years used to travel between Latin America and Italy. In 1950 Brazil got into the finals but lost out to Uruguay. Brazil promptly went into a week of mourning. This year the Brazilians were out to cop the cup. The team they had to beat: the lithe and husky Hungarians, 1952 Olympic champions and the hottest team out of Budapest since the Gabor sisters...
Actually, manufacturers and dealers must share the blame for the trouble. When the auto industry caught up with demand after World War II, neither side was prepared for the new kind of market. Dealers hated to go back to the old, hard selling practices of prewar days, and manufacturers continued to pour out cars based on their economists' estimates of the market rather than on what the market actually would take...
...prewar days, production and sales stayed in balance, because a car was not usually made until a dealer ordered it. In the early postwar years, when factories could not meet demand, cars were allocated to dealers on a quota basis. Until a few months ago, a dealer still had to take his quota, whether or not he could sell all the cars, or face loss of his franchise. Automakers have belatedly realized that the quota system often forced a dealer to bootleg cars to stay in business, have now relaxed it. Manufacturers have also finally realized that the chief source...
...Hard Way. Rosen's old-pro versatility has not come easy. As a prewar bush-leaguer he seemed so hopeless in the field that a Class C manager took one scornful look and said, "Listen, kid, you'd better go home and get yourself a lunch pail. Forget about baseball. You either have it or you don't. You don't." Al ignored the advice...
...long standing, but he is not noted for diplomacy. He was in a particularly undiplomatic mood last week when he arose at Los Angeles to address the 1954 convention of the Red Cross. "Developments in recent disaster operations," he said severely, would force Red Cross to return to its prewar policy of making special fund drives to help stricken cities rather than continuing to furnish aid out of its general fund. As a case in point, Harriman pointed to Flint, Mich. When a disastrous tornado hit Flint last June, he said, the Red Cross spent $600,000 to help victims...