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...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...
...early years of Japan's re-introduction to democracy, Hirata and Garey found a few old customs difficult to deal with. Although many Japanese businessmen were eager to resume their prewar world trade, most Japanese firms budgeted only a nominal amount for advertising and often treated this simply as a good-will fund. An advertising salesman would be politely received by a minor official, and, with typical courtesy, would be given a small ad or a modest fee, known as ashi dai (taxi fare or, more literally, feet...
...Prewar Moscow moviegoers loved to watch Tarzan hurtling from bough to bough, keening his apelike jungle call. Now, a Soviet film introduction makes it plain, Tarzan may safely be admired again. After all, says the preface, though he was the child of a rich Englishman, he was the only survivor of a shipwreck and was nurtured by apes, and so was "uncorrupted by bourgeois civilization...
...consumers, as well as business, have shared the benefits of Canada's faster industrial tempo. The average industrial work week has been cut from 48 to 41.8 hours; the supply of consumer goods has been increased. Cars are coming off the assembly lines at 2½ times the prewar rate, refrigerators at nine times; production of radios and electrical appliances had been trebled. Today, three out of five Canadian families own a car, five out of seven have telephones, 19 out of 20 have radios. In the cities of Toronto and Hamilton, 30,000 homeowners have already bought...