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  • a  belonging to the period after a war
    postwar resettlement
    postwar inflation

  • Two years ago the Committee for Economic Development began, with three "grass roots" committees attacking the great task of specific business planning for the postwar world.
  • One of the most radical suggestions yet made to solve the postwar unemployment problem came last week from Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, Eastern Air Lines president.
  • The victims of the turbulent postwar years were not only Jews, but also anti-communist Poles as well as Ukrainians and Germans expelled after the post-war shifting of borders.
News & Articles

  • Saving Grandma's Strawberry Cake From The Clutches Of Jell-O
    Postwar marketing of convenience foods pushed our grandmothers to take many shortcuts in the kitchen that modern foodies might find unpalatable. Many involved Jell-O. Cookbook author Jeremy Jackson updated his grandma Mildred's famous strawberry cake recipe to remove this old-school secret ingredient.
    June 13, 2013 - NPR
  • Buy Coco Matos, Klees, Gehrys Models in Uptown Galleries
    The wonderful show taking over Luxembourg & Dayan ’s Manhattan space presents rare early paintings, sculptures, assemblages and films by the postwar French artist.
    June 11, 2013 - Bloomberg
  • William Turnbull's History Lesson
    The British artist and sculptor William Turnbull leaves works tracing the full trajectory of postwar art with 40 pieces exhibited in the gardens of Chatsworth, one of Britain's grandest houses.
    June 10, 2013 - New York Times
Quotes

  • Harry Reid in FOXNews
    We cannot claim that Australia has avoided any downturn at all. It appears at this stage, however, that the downturn we are having may turn out not to be one of the more serious ones of the postwar era, in contrast to the experiences of so many... Glenn Stevens http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Stevens&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGuRU28BvrMR9HmOVWZaa9yyIJvlA Wall Street Journal http://www.google.com/url?q=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124875970529586091.html%3Fmod%3Dgooglenews_wsj&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNF7HOhtzBlzbrsfAXQ73AJ1ABow0Q Jul 27, 2009 76401 103207 postwar Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said that four years after the fall of Baghdad Iraq US troops desperately need a postwar strategy that recognizes the political situation on the ground and removes them from policing a civil war."
  • Peter Mandelson in WBT
    Rising powers are reshaping the postwar world,Mandelson said. "The risk we face is ...... the absence of coordinated global action and leadership."

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