Word: prewar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...twelfth time in six years, the ICC last week granted U.S. railroads a freight-rate increase. The latest 6% to 9% hike puts rates about 75% above prewar levels, and will give the railroads $618 million in new revenue this year-making it harder than ever for them to compete with trucks...
Last week the 1952 Michelin went on sale. A perennial bestseller (U.S. price: $3.75), the guidebook's print order is 200,000 copies, twice as much as the prewar figure. Its 880 pages are crammed with maps and tourist information of all sorts, with special emphasis on 8,000 hotels and restaurants...
...better off in its tankers; the booming oil industry has had 77 built since the war; 26 others now on order will bring the total to 477 v. 384 before the war. But the greatest lack is passenger ships, which could be converted to troop transports for war. Prewar, the U.S. had 162 of these; now it has only...
...climbing again to 800,000. Men, women & children worked side by side in the streets hauling away rubble in improvised rattan sledges. Streetcars, blistered, bullet-pocked and windowless, picked their way cautiously along the city's network of trolley tracks; 15 of Seoul's prewar fleet of 150 buses wheezed and coughed along cratered streets. Two brand-new fire engines had just been delivered from Japan...
...Deeper Power. In 1949 he set about organizing the new laymen's movement. His aim: "To call upon Protestant lay-Christians to assume . . . responsibility in all provinces of public life." Although Thadden was once active in practical politics (as a Conservative deputy in the prewar Reichstag), he does not want to convert the Kirchentag into a political party...