Word: prewar
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...Goodrich Co. reported that since the war the most popular size in rubber gloves has been 7½ instead of the prewar 8, which might indicate that U.S. hands are getting smaller...
...French steel production of 12 million tons would be quite a comfort to Frenchmen, even if western Germany were turning out 10.7 million by that time. The real basis of Germany's prewar threat to France was the fact that Germany could make three times as much armament as France could. As long as the French stayed ahead, it was safe to let German industry rise. Europe would never be rebuilt if keeping the absolute level of German industry down was made the first consideration of European planning...
Canadians are well aware that by geography, politics and the facts of trade Canada is part of the Western Hemisphere's family of nations. And yet, like the prewar U.S. isolationists, they hate to admit it. That was why suggestions that Canada sign the hemispheric defense treaty drawn up at Petropolis (see LATIN AMERICA) were so embarrassing. The thought of joining with the Pan American Union set off a rash of Canadian rationalization...
...employees, promptly pitched into a nostalgic Noel Coward medley and an Afrikaans song in "Lancashire French." Then she reverted to her old rough & tumble with a comic song called He Forgot to Come Back, wherein she quakingly called for "Hennerry." Only her celebrated cartwheels had been dropped from the prewar formula...
Most bewildered of all was the rubber industry, which only recently had cut tire prices to below prewar levels (TIME, June 23). Cried William F. O'Neil, president of the General Tire & Rubber Co.: "It seems strange that the Department of Justice fires only verbal guns at industries putting price rises into effect but files criminal charges at one of the few industries cooperating wholeheartedly with the President's fight against inflation...