Word: prewar
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...These editions were of every conceivable size, from a V-Mail TIME to a "Pony" edition (the first miniatured magazine to be sent by fast overseas delivery to our armed forces), to "Colt" sizes like the Paris edition, and others in the familiar U.S. TIME size. Some-like our prewar Air Express edition to Latin America and the edition we began in Sweden in 1943-carried their own advertising and served our English-reading subscribers around the earth. But most of them-like the editions printed in Honolulu, Australia, Calcutta-served military needs only...
...fiscal '47, the President proposed to spend $35,860,000,000. This was far below 1945's wartime peak of $100 billion, well below 1946's $67 billion. But it was still far above anything dreamed of in prewar years...
Government expenditures, said Harry Truman, "can hardly be expected to be reduced to less than $25 billion in subsequent years." At about such a figure, he hoped to balance the budget in '48. But at $25 billion Government costs would be about three times the prewar level and more than six times the predepression level. In the gravity-proof stratosphere of Government costs and taxes, nothing ever comes down as far as it goes...
...mindful of sugar production in Hawaii, Puerto Rico-and the potent domestic sugar beet lobby-has balked at giving Cuba a good break. The U.S., too, has a point. It insists that Cuba not capitalize on the war, that its quota remain fixed at the prewar...
...nearly so elaborately produced as some prewar French films (Story of a Cheat, Carnival in Flanders), It Happened at the Inn also lacks much of the expert, offhand humor of its nearest kin, The Baker's Wife. The new French humor has a hint of violence; there is violence, too, in the insistence on being funny. In the old French movies, you could take the jokes or leave them alone. In It Happened at the Inn, the humorous situations are of a sort you must either take or reject. U.S. audiences are likely to reject quite...