Word: prewar
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Alarmed at last, Premier Faure sent an emissary to Poujade to try to buy him off, with money from the secret funds French Premiers have always used to buy off trouble (as Colonel François de la Rocque of the prewar Croix de Feu was bought off). Faure's offer (according to Poujade) was $280,000 and a seat on the Economic Council of the Republic. Poujade refused. Belatedly the government brought suit against him for "organization of collective refusal to pay taxes." With this authority, detectives rummaged through Poujade's files, ransacked his offices, tapped...
...Japanese silkmen had to change their ways drastically. Their prewar silk fabric was imperfectly woven, poorly dyed, usable only for cheap kimonos, etc. U.S. dressmakers rarely used Japan's silks, preferring the higher quality fabrics of European weavers...
...story is as old as reveille. In a prewar barracks town, Gunner Asch and his friend Vierbein run afoul of discipline and authority in an artillery battery. The trouble with Vierbein is that the mere sight of a corporal or a sergeant is enough to reduce him to terrified obedience. He is an unsoldierly-looking fellow with a built-in knack for getting into trouble (when he is detailed to beat carpets for the sergeant major's wife, she offers herself to him on a carpet just as her husband comes along). Inevitably, he is a butt...
Baird's Evaporograph (Eva for short) is based on a prewar German idea which until recently was not followed up diligently. It has a concave mirror which concentrates heat rays as the mirror of an astronomical telescope concentrates light...
...launched by booster (jato) rockets whose powerful push gets them into the air without too long a take-off run. The rockets are expensive, whether they use liquid or solid fuel, so the West German Ministry of Transport asked jet-propulsion experts to evaluate hot-water rockets, a prewar German idea that never got a thorough tryout. Recently, Physicist Werner Michely told a meeting at Freu-denstadt that hot-water booster rockets look promising...