Word: prewar
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...Jews were bitter. Publicly they protested the return of the "terrorist leader" who had instigated the bloody prewar riots of 1936-1939. That night Jews marked his homecoming with another of those terrorist gestures that punctuate Palestine's current history...
...native chieftain but a real king, and Cambodia not as a protectorate but as an almost-autonomous state within the framework of a projected French union. In return the French would expect continued Cambodian loyalty in an otherwise disaffected colony. France would still control Cambodian foreign affairs, and her prewar administrators would remain as "royal advisers." But Cambodia's new status, formalized by treaty, was France's way of rewarding Cambodia's good behavior...
Eight war-rusty U.S. players and four Canadians paired off last week at Manhattan's swank Racquet & Tennis Club for the first National Doubles Championships since 1941. Everybody's footwork and timing was off. But prewar champion Bobby Grant was still one of the most paralyzing hitters the game had ever known. Teamed with Clarence Pell Jr., he whacked shots that nobody even saw until too late, won easily from Richard Leonard and Joe Brooks (see cut) in the finals...
Shooting any sort of projectile beyond the earth's gravitational field would take enormous energy. Prewar energy sources could barely do it, even in theory. One calculation: a 100-ton spaceship would need nearly 8,000 tons of gasoline and liquid oxygen to toss it into space...
...what caused Wall Streeters to raise their brows in the whole affair was the manner in which Andy Higgins was cashing in by going out of business. Never a big moneymaker in prewar years (Higgins Industries made a net profit of only $31,748 in 1939), Higgins Industries had grown fat on war orders for ships. The stock plan would render this fat into cash...