After the second world war, Britain sank down the GDP-per-head league tables, looking enviously at the German and Japanese economic miracles in the 1970s.

ECONOMIST: Buttonwood

The QDR proposed that the minimum airlift capacity to support the two-war construct was approximately 50 million ton-miles per day with an additional surge sealift capacity of 10 million square feet.

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Mr Corrigan's victory over the unions in the docks war led to a four-fold increase in productivity per worker at Patrick's freight terminals in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney, the three eastern ports that handle the bulk of Australia's trade.

ECONOMIST: Face value

Meanwhile, almost untouched by the war, Congo-Brazzaville's 230, 000 barrels of oil per day keep flowing from the offshore rigs.

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The same held true for post-World War II rebuilding of Japan and Germany, also coming off a much lower per capita income and consumption base.

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Growth was just fine in this era 3.3% per year in real terms, exactly the rate of growth that prevailed in the long post-World War II run that is so famous, 1945-73.

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In 2001, military spending, as a function of the over-all American economy, was, at six per cent, the lowest it had been since the Second World War.

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