Post war, they fell out of fashion with the arrival of convenience foods and improved living standards.
Without it, the founding myth of post war France, the saving narrative, would not have been possible.
Germany's jobless total remains stubbornly close to the post war record of five million reached in March.
Its purpose was not military but political: to establish the tenor of post war France and to hand France to de Gaulle.
Wings Over Somerset author Peter Forrester, from Yeovil, has researched post war plane crashes that were either in Somerset or have a connection to it.
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This is the moment when General de Gaulle restored the pride of France, the moment he created the founding myth of the post war French republic.
Born in Dundee in 1922, William Turnbull was never to become a household name but was at the forefront of British art in the post war period.
"I think there is an enormous amount of uncertainty as to what institutions, what form of governance, is going to emerge from the post war situation, " he said.
My next concern is that the moral relativism which emerged post war- and which is probably unavoidable in a liberal society- has morphed into something much worse- what we may call intellectual relativism.
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According to professor Mike Molasky, author of the book Post War Jazz Culture in Japan, these cafes thrived between the 1950s and 1970s, when the Japanese discovered the genre through the scores of French New Wave films and a series of influential live performances by the band Blakey and the Jazz Messengers in 1961.
Sir Robert also said divisions in government, cabinet and public opinion over the legitimacy of the war inhibited post-war reconstruction efforts.
But they were every bit as good as the private sector in terms of choice and quality - if not far better, particularly after the 1944 Education Act and the founding of the NHS, which offered services and opportunities transformed from the pre-war years within a post-war economy and society governed by rationing, funding constraints, and pervasive low skills and aspirations.
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NATO's recent summit in Washington, the war in Kosovo and the post-war challenge of once and for all de-balkanising the Balkans could soon cast Europe in a more impressive light.
The small Polish breweries that existed before World War II were liquidated in the post-war years, and the larger breweries were nationalised.
When the declaration was drafted, the cold war had already begun to blight post-war hopes that international co-operation would prevail over great-power rivalry.
Or, as Colin Powell put it, it is not just that the Cold War is over - now the post Cold War is over too.
After the war a fifth bond, for post-war reconstruction was issued.
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He grew up in the quiet environment of a comfortably well-off family, whose attitudes had been shaped by memories of the War itself and the uncertainty of the post-War austerity years.
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If there is a war, the United States would approach its post-war work with a two-part resolve: a commitment to stay and a commitment to leave.
He entered Parliament in 1945 in Labour's post-war landslide and became Speaker in 1976, a post he held until his retirement seven years later.
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The act also established the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), which grew out of World War II era Office of Strategic Services and small post-war intelligence organizations.
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In the post-war years various statesmen have sought to define Britain's post-imperial identity.
Rather than a repressed silence about German suffering in the years following the war, there is almost nothing else in the media coverage of the early post-war decades.
The head of the powerful Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) is one of a new generation of Japanese politicians less influenced by Japan's World War II defeat and less indebted to the U.S. in the post-war years.
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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.
Turning to events after the war, Sir Christopher said UK co-operation in the mission should have been contingent on a thorough post-war plan for Iraq but, instead, the UK was "taken for granted".
Post World War I America was captivated by the daring of men like Charles Lindbergh and Richard Peary.
The moral dilemmas of post-war Polish collaborators are better portrayed than those of the wartime occupiers.
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