Word: prewar
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...Long Security, curled up for the morning's work. He was then carried happily off to be ground up for oil. The offspring of this union is a formidable tyke, capable of producing silk evener in color, stronger and slightly sheerer (thinner) than Japan's prewar best. In due course, the Japs hope to find him out on many an American limb...
Comeback. Of the hundreds of prewar college humor magazines, only 40 had lasted through the war. By last week there were 200. Circulations were booming: at teeming Texas the Ranger had hit 14,000 and California's Pelican was over...
...scene was not prewar Germany, but Jerusalem last week; the colonel no 55 trooper, but one Richard H. L. Webb, commander of the ist Battalion of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. The detained correspondents included the New York Post's George L. Cassidy, who said Lieut. Colonel Webb explained that Britain's military policy in Palestine is to have her troops "make such a nuisance of themselves [that] the bloody Jews will cease protecting the Stern gang and other terrorists." Colonel Webb added: "I don't care if I'm out of the Army tomorrow...
There, with the blessing of the Department of Interior and the backing ($3,750,000) of RFC, the privately operated Explorer and its trawlers will conduct an important experiment. It hopes to prove that U.S. fishermen can replace the Japanese who, prewar, caught and processed 66% of the world's tuna in their floating canneries, virtually monopolized the $8-million-a-year catch of the Bering Sea's huge king crabs. The Explorer will also find out if Russia will, like Canada, respect international conservation regulations, or, like Japan, flout them...
Miss Hellman says that the American tendency to look the other way during the prewar years had a lot to do with the war, and that our diplomats had better take off their blinders if we want peace. She says it by showing a diplomat, in the center of Europe throughout the twenties and thirties, but completely oblivious to the malignant growth of militarism. Constantly prodded through Miss Hellman by the woman he loves, but never marries, he continues blithely to believe in conciliation until the war breaks out. His wife, a social lioness, is equally calm. Both remain blind...