Word: prewar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Surgeon Appleby was one of a score or more U.S. doctors who have dropped in to Vienna in the past month to widen their skills. Like Appleby, all of them have had reason to be glad that the American Medical Society is again operating with prewar precision. From 1904 to 1940 it was host to more than 20,000 English-speaking physicians. Postwar reconstruction was slow, but Boston's Dr. M. Arthur Kline, a nutrition expert and biochemist, was fired with a resolve to revive the society when he went to Vienna two years ago to revisit the scenes...
...Since prewar East-West trade was three times bigger in units than the postwar peak, businessmen tend to regard the prewar level as an attainable goal. They forget Russia itself deliberately wiped out two-thirds of the prewar trade. Most of it came from the once-independent nations, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary. Rumania, and East Germany. As Soviet satellites, they now send goods which once flowed to the West, to Moscow and Peking at Soviet-set prices. The West's normal trade with mid-Europe has dropped from the prewar level of 8% of its total trade to the present...
...sharp decline. Many investors who had been selling stocks and taking their profits at higher levels were looking around for likely buys at last week's lower prices. Furthermore, on the basis of past performance, companies could suffer some drop in profits without any damage to their dividends. Prewar, corporate dividends averaged 74% of earnings, whereas recently they have averaged only 58%. Another hopeful market portent; despite Dwight Eisenhower's plea for extension, the excess profits tax seemed all but dead come June 30 (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
After eight years of gathering and verifying statistics, the city fathers of Frankfurt (prewar pop. 550,000) counted the cost of the war that Hitler started. Between 1939-45, reported the municipal bureau of vital statistics, 14,701 Frankfurt men were killed in action (64% on the Russian front); 5,000 more are listed as "missing in action," but of these, 75% are almost certainly dead...
Fine Tolerances. As soon as Daimler-Benz was making money again, it went out to recapture its old racing honors. In 1952, it sent the powerful, speedy 300 SL to Brescia for Italy's famed Mille Miglia (1,000-mile race). Along went a famed prewar Mercedes figure, vat-sized Alfred Neubauer, 62, pit boss in the 1930s. Neubauer, who wears two stop watches about his neck and likes to keep a cooling case of Munich beer close by, had lost none of his cunning. Under his split-second training, crews changed tires and refueled the Mercedes...