Word: prewar
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...nationalization program which had swept them into office, some British Labor Ministers began to rant at the "selfish minority" of miners who were holding up British recovery. Not all their followers went with them. In a radio broadcast last month, black-haired, black-eyed, hyperenergetic Xenia Field (prewar playwright and golf champion, now Deputy Director of Britain's Supply Ministry) told her fellow Laborites to stop hollering at the miners and give them more to eat. In Holland, where miners got 5,248 calories a day (British miner's ration: 2,750 to 3,000 calories...
...nice new saccharine coating. The campaign for more and harder work would be called, not austerity but a "prosperity drive"; if the drive went well, Attlee thought that by year's end the British people might expect the supply of consumer goods to be "halfway back" to prewar standards...
...knot, 543-passenger liners. It is also busy reconverting the P-2s, originally built as Navy troop carriers, for private shippers. Their cabins, in which the beds neatly fold into the bulkhead (see cut), will carry tourists more comfortably-and probably more cheaply-than prewar ships...
...About 500,000 radios, less than half of the prewar rate...
...refrigerators, only 30% of prewar output, and production was skidding...