Word: regains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most of the first two postwar years, aluminum, thanks largely to its availability when other materials were short, continued in high demand. But this spring, as fabricators' inventories were filled, demand slacked off. Today much of the industry is running at about 75% of capacity. To regain lost ground, aluminum must compete with the other materials in price as well as in utility...
...William Walker joined a revolutionary leader in Nicaragua with a band of adventurers, seized the capital, had himself inaugurated President. Two years later he was overthrown in a counterrevolution, eventually lost his life in attempting to regain power...
...pointed out in an interview Tuesday that there is little chance that France or Germany will over regain their prewar cultural and intellectual dominance in Europe. The German and French tradition of fine art, literature, education, and architecture, is broken, possibly irreparably...
...tried to curtail silk imports into the U.S., but General MacArthur has insisted that it is up to U.S.C.C. to solve the problem of selling it. As one way, U.S.C.C. and the International Silk Guild plan to spend nearly $1,000,000 in an advertising campaign intended to regain silk's lost prestige with American women. This should help. But drastically lowered prices, barred until the end of the year, may be the only way to move the stockpile. Then the bottom may drop out of the retail price of silk goods...
...Reader De Boer regain his balance by hauling in that extended little finger...