Word: prewar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, at Sarajevo, the minaret-studded Bosnian town where in 1914 Austria's Archduke Francis Ferdinand was assassinated, Tito was having his own show. The defendants in the dock were accused of spying for Soviet Russia, collaborating with prewar Yugoslav fascists and plotting to overthrow the Tito regime...
...Robert Pferdmenges, partner in the Cologne banking firm of Salomon Oppenheim & Co., and, unlike many a Ruhr magnate, no Nazi supporter; he acts as Adenauer's economic counsel. The other is boyish-looking, 45-year-old Herbert Blankenhorn, a former German diplomat who served in the prewar German embassy in Washington; his task is to smooth Adenauer's relations with the Allies...
Kala-azar is found in the Mediterranean basin, in India (where it got its name, meaning black disease), China and Brazil. Prewar cases in the U.S. were mostly Lascar seamen or visitors from the Orient. Then scores of U.S. servicemen caught the disease. Many cases may still be lurking in veterans' bloodstreams as "undiagnosed fever." U.S. doctors have been alerted against...
Died. Baron Reijiro ("The Archer") Wakatsuki, 83, Japan's democrat, onetime head of the old Minseito (peace) party, twice prewar Premier, helpless opponent of the army's 1931 march into Manchuria (he resigned shortly after); after long illness; near Ito, Japan...
...first ten months of this year the demand for cars is still near the top. After a consumer survey, the Federal Reserve Board predicted that there would be peak auto sales at least until the middle of 1950. One reason is that more people can afford autos than prewar. Explained FRB: while the retail price of the three leading lowest-priced cars went up an average of 65% between 1941 and early 1949, U.S. family income increased more than 100% (from $1,500 to $3,100) in the same period. On top of that, said FRB, some 20 million...