Word: prewar
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...Steel production was up 12.8% over 1954, and machine building was 157% above the prewar level. ¶ Japan had moved from seventh to third place among the world's shipbuilders, led only by Great Britain and West Germany and far outdistancing...
...young American is searching for answers in an area that his prewar counterpart was all too ready to scorn...
...employees), with holdings in 35 other companies, and has so much money to spend that it wields a potent influence on Italy's press and among its politicians. In the development field, it has expanded Italy's production of methane to almost 100 times the prewar total, a noteworthy achievement. But as sn oil producer, E.N.I, has been a bungling flop. Where it has bored only dry holes and left, private explorers later found oil; so far, E.N.I, has raised only one gusher-in the promising Abruzzi area-and that by edging up close and spudding into...
...quickly noted that many of the items on display were products that Japan herself is trying to peddle abroad, and especially to China, e.g., radios, sewing machines, surgical instruments. This raised Japanese fears that the Chinese Communists mean to compete with Japanese industry, instead of resuming China's prewar practice of swapping its raw materials for Japanese manufactured goods. Chinese consumer goods at cutthroat prices have already turned up in Southeast Asian markets...
...crowds of West Germans circulating amidst the gleaming chromium and tingling scent of new leather at Frankfurt's 37th International Automobile Show last week, there was much to be proud of. Flashy B.M.W.'s and new models of such prewar favorites as the Mercedes showed plainly why the revived German automobile industry is gobbling up more and more (21.6%) of the world's export markets...