Word: prewar
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...this gay but canny mood, Edinburgh last week welcomed some 40,000 to its second annual, three-week "wee drap o' music an' drama." Edinburgh had spent $400,000 to outdo even the prewar glamor of Austria's Salzburg...
...prewar German shipping tycoon, he had wedged his way into the Atlantic traffic with simple, serviceable ships, the lowest tourist rates of any line, and an inexpensive elevator system for carrying automobiles uncrated. A Jew, the Nazis jailed him and confiscated his ships. Released, he went to the U.S., built up a new Bernstein line that ran from New York to Antwerp and the Dutch ports. His ships were sunk during the war. Now, at 58, he is at it again...
With German ports not yet back to normal, Bernstein's prewar route to Belgium and The Netherlands has become one of the U.S.'s main arteries to Europe. Each week, four or five ships of half a dozen lines leave U.S. ports for Antwerp and Rotterdam. Some carry only a tenth of their cargo capacity, and many lose money on the run. But all the lines have the same idea: to entrench themselves for the day when the U.S.-Lowlands route may carry as much as 3,000,000 tons of freight a year between...
Tire men happily admitted that they had badly misjudged demand. With over 4,000,000 cars and trucks coming off assembly lines this year, they now thought they could sell 80 million tires in the next twelve months. That would keep production one-fourth above the prewar level well into...
Mississippi River traffic is booming as never before. The river's 6,600 boat-barge fleet has grown 20% since prewar, and this year will haul an estimated 150 million tons of freight (enough to fill 57,000 freight trains of 50 cars each). At an average $1.50 a ton, that means a record gross of some $225 million...