Word: prewar
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...much of total expenditures went for rent, prewar...
...This represents a considerable improvement in scholaste record over prewar years," Bender asserted. He explaned that rank list percentages show that while groups 1 (all A's) and 2 (2 B's, 24 A's) have not increased greatly, many more students are making groups 3 (all B's) and 4 (2 B's, 2 C's) than before...
...massive roadblock stands in the way of getting that money from Congress. Last fortnight the U.S. Senate Special War Investigating committee had some tough words to say about the highway. The committee concerned itself little with the road's prewar history, much with the wartime chapters, when German submarines threatened sea lanes in the Caribbean and a rush job sought to drive the highway through to Panama...
...heard of greener pastures in Alberta, where the coal mines needed men. One day last month, with five fellow miners, he piled into a prewar Ford and headed west...
...reduced Stalingrad's population from 500,000 to 22,000, its housing to 5% of prewar, its plant capacity to zero. Today, according to the state's priority system, the city has 70% of its prewar plant capacity, 60% of its prewar population and 20% of its prewar housing. Up to a point, the Kremlin is right to concentrate on long-range reconstruction of industry rather than on immediate comforts, such as housing and consumer goods; but under the brutal 70-60-20 Stalingrad ratio, which puts men at least ten years behind machines, human beings...