Word: prewar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...roads that wind from Seoul to Munsan, to Uijongbu and farther east, in central and eastern Korea, many families like the Ahns were on the move last week. In a thousand hamlets and settlements, some within sound of artillery on the stalemated battlefront, the blue-grey ashes of prewar villages were being raked aside, raw pine uprights were being planted, and women & children were combing through the rice straw for thatching for new roofs. Of the 22 million people in South Korea, about a fourth are homeless. No matter how hard and hopefully they work they cannot soon replace their...
...which went into operation last week. When it gets into full production late this year, the $112 million refinery will boost the company's output of gasoline and other petroleum products by 80,000 bbls. a day-1½ times as much as all of Britain's prewar capacity...
...Prewar Career: Because of his talent for languages, the Army sent him to Paris to study French, then brought him back to West Point, where for five years he taught French and Spanish. Later spent nearly two years in Tokyo learning Japanese. Went through the Command and General Staff School and the Army War College. In 1942, as a colonel, he was assigned to help organize the Army's first airborne divisions, the 82nd and the 101st...
...Paris, André François-Poncet, 65, prewar French Ambassador in Berlin and Rome and now High Commissioner to West Germany, faced one of the toughest diplomatic chores of his career. As a newly elected member of the French Academy, he had the traditional duty of eulogizing the man to whose seat he had been elevated: the late Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain. He spent four months polishing his speech. The result left his fellow academicians, used to nimble-tongued exhibitions, applauding with admiration. Sample pirouette: "Some of the pages which Marshal Pétain wrote...
Chief reason for the butter glut was the big increase in sales of colored oleomargarine, now permitted in 42 states.* In prewar days, per capita consumption of oleo was only 2.9 lbs. a year compared to 16.7 lbs. of butter. Today it is 7.7 lbs. compared to 8.7 lbs. for butter. This year U.S. margarine output is expected to hit at least 1¼ billion lbs., topping butter production for the first time in the nation's history. Another reason for the surplus of butter is increased imports of dried milk (up 90% so far this year...