They said, no more new houses to be built, so everyone thought--in fact they were talking about World War III, they were really scared.

他们说,禁止新建住宅,因此当时人们都认为,要爆发第三次世界大战,人们都很害怕

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While he was still in Luxembourg, just before World War II broke out, he emigrated to the United States and finished his career in the Pacific Northwest where he helped make huge quantities of titanium.

他一直住在卢森堡，在二次世界大战爆发前，他移民到了美国,后半生在太平洋西北部,他制备了大量的钛结束了他的事业。

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It turns out that it didn't turn into World War III and -maybe they did shut down the housing or they must have curtailed it, but it created that boom.

结果没有爆发第三次世界大战,也许政府真的关闭了房产市场,至少他们限制了房地产,而这促进了房地产繁荣

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