Word: prewar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reaction in the country. From the ornate rostrum of the Chamber, beneath the stone-eyed gaze of Attic beauties, the prosaic tannery-man from St. Chamond ticked off the things he proposed to do: fight inflation, which had shrunk the franc to one twenty-fifth of its prewar value. Bring down prices, not by dirigisme (the Frenchman's word for government controls) but by persuading the big industrialists and the countless Antoine Pinays of France to be content with more reasonable profit margins. Balance the budget, not by his predecessors' resort to higher taxes, but by slicing expenditures...
...little (1½-liter) French Gordini, driven by an ex-motorcycle racer named Jean Behra, who set a blistering average of 89 m.p.h. Only 5 min. 37 sec. behind the Frenchman was Italy's Bracco, with Germany's Karl Kling, greying veteran of prewar races, right at their heels...
...Buick's production had quadrupled. From the Depression low of 41,000 units, Buick hit a prewar high of 377,000, fourth place in the entire industry, right behind lower-priced Ford, Chevrolet and Plymouth. When he left Buick to become G.M.'s executive vice president, Red Curtice took over design, public relations, distribution, engineering, research, personnel, employee relations, procurement and real estate for the entire corporation...
Murder in the Suburbs. The enormous development of row upon row of new suburban homes was a postwar phenomenon familiar to any cross-country airplane passenger. Prewar suburbs were normally Republican. But the transplanting of hundreds of thousands of prospering city dwellers-many of them Democrats-raised the question of which way the suburbs would go. The Volunteers for Eisenhower were the first to spot the possibilities of the suburban areas, turned in big Republican leads from New York's bedroom counties all across the U.S. Even in deep-Democratic Georgia, Atlanta's three suburban "fingerbowl" districts gave...
...supply, without which German employers could not demand so much of their men. Well over a million Germans are still out of jobs; millions more, mostly refugees, are underfed and badly housed. Despite the boom, the average per capita food consumption in Western Germany is about 10% less than prewar...