Word: prewar
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Next, rumors began leaking from the State Capitol that Governor Dewey, who can boast a $500 million war-accumulated treasury surplus, would soon announce a new cut in taxes-possibly reducing state income taxes to half the prewar level...
...royal style. The palace chefs would have the night out; special caterers have been engaged to provide as lavish a feast as possible in austere Britain. Wines, including Krug champagne of the famous 1928 vintage, have been carted over from the royal cellars at Buckingham. Servants will don their prewar liveries of scarlet & gold and blue & gold...
...Wendell Willkie found among Asia's masses, was drying up. Cried the bitter Indian press: "American sympathy for freedom is merely platonic. ... At least the Japanese sought to set up some form of self-government in every Asiatic country. All you white men seek to do is reinstall prewar exploiters, imperialists, and burra sahibs [great masters...
...earth's crust, scientists estimate, is composed of twelve parts per million of thorium and four parts per million of uranium. British India produced three-quarters of the prewar supply of thorium. Other deposits have been worked in Brazil, Australia, The Netherlands East Indies, and parts...
...Britons who live in the somnolent shadow of Sabbatarian BBC, prewar Radio Luxembourg was a sprightly, sunny beam. Its bright shows included hotcha acts from British music halls, such U.S. soap operas as Stella Dallas...