Word: prewar
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...would have no trouble proving that the Nazis could not have made war without Farben. But it would not be so easy to prove which of Farben's prewar activities had been respectable, if ruthless, business practice and which had been criminal warmaking. Nor would U.S. industrialists agree that Farben's deals with U.S. companies had hampered the U.S. war potential. They have maintained that they got from Farben more industrial secrets than they gave. After years of argument, the point was still arguable...
...which were the best ever. The net profit was $21,502,408 on sales of $317,041,078. (Profits for 1946: $26,889,290.) On the basis of this showing, Chrysler planned to split its stock two-for-one and raise the quarterly dividend rate from 75? to the prewar high...
...were trained in the '305, so most journeymen now are older men who simply cannot do a hard day's work. (The average age of masons in Chicago is 58.) Builders agree that the productivity of most A.F.L. building-trades labor is only 50 to 60% of prewar. And there seemed to be little hope of much improvement...
...make men sniff with interest, the fields of Grasse produce only a few, and not enough of those. Citronella, civet, vetivert, santalol, ambergris, patchouli and a long list of other exotic products had to be imported from abroad, and they were still not arriving in France in anything like prewar quantities. Prices were staggering; a kilo (2.2 pounds) of musk is now 100,000 francs compared with 9,000 prewar...
...announcement left Harvard the only one of the Big Three to maintain its prewar tuition rates, since Yale announced a $100 raise last January, bringing its tuition...