The U.S. could easily reduce the tax-filing population to pre-World War II levels by dropping two-thirds of taxpayers from the drudgery of filing annual returns.
According to noted vintage poster dealer Jim Lapides, president of International Poster Gallery in Boston, pre-World War II travel posters are the most highly sought after, with posters dating to the post-war era quickly catching up in price.
Exit polls suggest that a major reason for the much worse than expected performance of the SPD (22%) in its area of dominance during the pre-World War II Weimar Republic is that it proposed a much slower process of reunification while the CDU-led Alliance and the Free Democrats (with 53% of the vote) agreed with Kohl on a rapid process of reunification.
Latin art is still viewed through the lens of stodgy, pre-World War II muralism.
The classic example is pre-World War II Germany where the government literally printed money to pay it bills.
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In pre-World War II Germany, hyperinflation required householders to fill wheelbarrows with devalued marks to buy a loaf of bread.
In 1990, the Lithuanian Parliament proclaimed the restoration of the Baltic Republic's pre-World War II independence from the Soviet Union.
She was also president of the National Council of Household Employment, which among other issues tackled a pre-World War II shortage of housemaids.
Built in 1930, it was the city's only pre-World War II theatre in an urban area and enjoyed an active heyday of screenings, performances and events.
But, like their counterparts in pre-World War II Britain, todays spies are serving up soporific conclusions certain (if not calculated) to encourage inaction by the West and to buy our enemies time to prepare their onslaught.
It's a reference to the pre-World War II forerunners of a corporate form whose modern iterations are better known as keiretsu, those vertically integrated manufacturing and trading cartels that gave Japan Inc. its fearsome reputation in the 1980s.
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The news about Oakland traveled around the world early this week, and now some within the movement think it provides them with a reason to escalate the protest into attempting a general strike next week, something that has not been tried in the U.S. since pre-World War II.
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Property prices and stock markets languished below their pre-1929 levels until World War II shocked production back to life.
With a few exceptions - most notably a dilapidated World War II prisoner of war camp in County Durham - all the buildings are pre-20th Century.
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