Word: prewar
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...volume was lush with enticing descriptions of all the standard prewar meccas and war had added a clutch of new see-worthy sights to attract the tourist eye and dollar. In Normandy, as of yore, there were "hotels to suit all means and tastes," and now there was also "a comfortable service of motor coaches making daily trips to the landing beaches and battlefields." For those who chose to rough it at Omaha Beach, some abandoned landing barges would make convenient bathhouses...
...with a job and a house in town, plus a farm, must give up one or the other. Big farms have been slashed into small units-so small that many of them are economically impractical. That helps explain why Finland's agricultural output last year was 60% of prewar, while industrial output recovered...
...Price of Butter. Finland suffers war's inevitable inflation and the lowering of living standards. The Finnmark is officially valued at about one-fifth its prewar (2?) value. But its actual value is about one-tenth. By official statistics, Finnish taxes are almost seven times higher than in 1935. In the U.S. meaning of the word, almost all Finns are workers. The country has exactly 100 people with annual incomes of as much as 1,000,000 Finnmarks-$7,352 at the official rate of exchange. For workers, the cost of living has risen 4½ times over...
...that Japan is still critically short of raw materials and has no money to buy them. In short, trade must be developed. Before the war, in a typical year like 1938, Japan imported U.S. goods worth $260,667,000, sold the U.S. $123,836,000. How much of the prewar imports U.S. business could buy, or would want to, nobody knew. The market for silk was drastically reduced (TIME, May 26). For some time, at least, it looked as if trade in other items -fish, tea, cotton piece-goods, agar-agar, pottery, toys-would be small...
April-showers, and May-flower time brought a fresh harvest of Crimson victories. On the cinders, coach Mikkola's lads began scourging the Ivy League with prewar vitality. While his assistant Ed Flanagan worked with the weightmen, Mikkola waved the magic wand over javelin throwers and polevaulters. The Crimson disposed of Yale, swept the Nonagonals, and then went on to roll up 24 points in the 44-college IC4A championships at Philadelphia for a third-place tie with Penn State. Harvard track had rebounded from its wartime pygmy status with a vengeance...