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This is largely a period of post-war reconstruction and exploration in the Nephite nation.
We have lived up to our convictions .” In any case, lack of accreditation seems to have made little difference during the post-war period, when the university more than doubled in size.
Influenced by Keynes, economics texts in the immediate post-war period put a significant emphasis on balance in trade.
1996 and 1997 were a period of post-war recovery and improving economic conditions.
The post-war period was an age of reflection on the war, and the emergence of a competing medium, the television.
Attlee returned to local politics in the immediate post-war period, becoming mayor of the Metropolitan Borough of Stepney in 1919, one of London's poorest inner-city boroughs.
The post-war, and post-reunions, period saw an increase in co-operation and interaction between ecclesias, resulting in the establishment of a number of week-long Bible schools and the formation of national and international organisations such as the Christadelphian Bible Mission ( for preaching and pastoral support overseas ), the Christadelphian Support Network ( for counselling ), and the Christadelphian Meal-A-Day Fund ( for charity and humanitarian work ).
The reconstruction that followed left very little historical remains and the post-war reconstruction period saw drastic renovation plans in highrise style, some of which were implemented.
The post-war period also saw growth of the ecumenical movement and the founding of the World Council of Churches, which was generally regarded with suspicion by the evangelical community.
Many of the German films of the immediate post-war period can be characterised as belonging to the genre of the Trümmerfilm ( literally " rubble film ").
The post-war period also witnessed a significant rise in the standard of living of the Western European working class.
The Hammond organ was widely used in United States military chapels and post theaters during the Second World War, and returning soldiers ' familiarity with the instrument may have helped contribute to its popularity in the post-war period.
In the post-war period, Marcuse was the most explicitly political and left-wing member of the Frankfurt School, continuing to identify himself as a Marxist, a socialist, and a Hegelian.
In the early post-war period, Tripolitania and Cyrenaica remained under British administration, while the French controlled Fezzan.
Hatfield was one of the post-war New Towns built around London and has much modernist architecture from the period.
The post-war period was a time of rapid economic growth and increasing social and political stability for Finland.
However, though the post-war period saw a boom in prosperity for Canada, the country was again at war by 1950, with Alexander, in his role as acting commander-in-chief, deploying to the Korean War soldiers, sailors, and airmen, whom he would visit prior to their departure for north-east Asia.
In the post-war period, Italy was transformed from an agricultural based economy which had been severely affected by the consequences of World War II, into one of the world's most industrialized nations, and a leading country in world trade and exports.
The LDP has been the dominant party for most of the post-war period since 1955, and is composed of several factions.
In power until his death in 1953, Stalin led the USSR during the period of post-war reconstruction, marked by the dominance of Stalinist architecture.
The Yugoslav administration in the immediate post-war period managed to unite a country that had been severely affected by ultra-nationalist upheavals and war devastation, while successfully suppressing the nationalist sentiments of the various nations in favor of tolerance, and the common Yugoslav goal.
During this period, the post-war division of Germany was consolidated with the establishment of two separate German states, the Federal Republic of Germany ( West Germany ) and the German Democratic Republic ( East Germany ).
Regardless of its source, an explosion of artistic creativity certainly occurred in the post-war period, involving manga artists such as Osamu Tezuka ( Astro Boy ) and Machiko Hasegawa ( Sazae-san ).
The post-war period left the capitals of Europe in upheaval with an urgency to economically and physically rebuild and to politically regroup.
In the post-war period the R4M served as the pattern for a number of similar systems, used by almost all interceptor aircraft during the 1940s and ' 50s.

post-war and Thomas
Like the pillars of Hercules, like two ruined Titans guarding the entrance to one of Dante's circles, stand two great dead juvenile delinquents -- the heroes of the post-war generation: the great saxophonist, Charlie Parker, and Dylan Thomas.
Strand produced films for the MOI ; Thomas scripted at least five films in 1942, This Is Colour ( a history of the British dyeing industry ) and New Towns For Old ( on post-war reconstruction ).
The main movement in post-war 1940s poetry was the New Romantic group that included Dylan Thomas, George Barker, W. S. Graham, Kathleen Raine, Henry Treece and J. F. Hendry.
The village also had a light railway serving Shillingstone House, the post-war home of Sir Thomas Salt.
He began as one of the most promising of Anglophone post-war poets, but became better known as a critic, writing biographies of Robert Graves ( whom he met first at age 14 and maintained close ties with ), Rudyard Kipling and Thomas Hardy, and producing numerous critical studies.
In George Thomas Stevens's post-war ( 1870 ) history of the VI Corps, Wright related to Thomas that he himself was the person who shouted at the president to get down.
Thomas also engineered a post-war undercover sting operation that resulted in the arrest of several former S. S. officers.

post-war and United
By February 1948, because of massive post-war military cuts, the entire United States army had been reduced to 552, 000 men.
Roosevelt helped establish terms for a post-war world among potential allies at the Atlantic Conference ; specific points were included to correct earlier failures, which became a step toward the United Nations.
Slavery everywhere in the United States was outlawed by the post-war ( 1865 ) ratification of the 13th Amendment.
That success did not last long, as post-war domestic problems, Albanian resistance, and pressure from United States President Woodrow Wilson, forced Italy to pull out in 1920.
Since the second post-war the Italian armed force has become more and more engaged in international peace support operations, mainly under the auspices of the United Nations.
In the post-war years, NNS built the famous passenger liner SS United States, which set a transatlantic speed record that still stands today.
Through his decisive influence on Claude Lévi-Strauss and Roland Barthes, among others, Jakobson became a pivotal figure in the adaptation of structural analysis to disciplines beyond linguistics, including anthropology and literary theory ; this generalization of Saussurean methods, known as " structuralism ", became a major post-war intellectual movement in Europe and the United States.
In the late 1950s, despite the United Kingdom's entrenched class system that restricted working class people's opportunities, the post-war economic boom led to an increase in disposable income among many young people.
The United States saw dramatic growth in the popularity of talk radio during the 1990s due to the repeal of the Federal Communications Commission's post-war Fairness Doctrine of 1949, in 1987.
Booming post-war industrial markets and the expansion of the American West fueled wild speculation and corruption throughout the United States, only to come to an abrupt crash with the Panic of 1873.
To some degree internal and external tensions in the post-war era were managed by new institutions, including the United Nations, the welfare state and the Bretton Woods system, providing to the post – World War II boom, which lasted well into the 1970s.
** Unemployment in the United Kingdom increases by 129, 918 to 3, 070, 621, a post-war record.
Though the patent was granted in 1947, due to post-war shortages, the game was not officially launched until 1949, when the game was simultaneously licensed to Parker Brothers in the United States for publication, where it was renamed " Clue " along with other minor changes.
In the 20th century the Caribbean was again important during World War II, in decolonization wave in the post-war period, and in the tension between Communist Cuba and the United States ( US ).
In its native United Kingdom, it became famous as the theme to the weekly BBC radio program Children's Favourites from 1952 to 1966, and is still widely recognised by the post-war generation.
Synthetic rubber, which was not produced in the United States prior to the war, quickly became the primary source of rubber in the post-war years.
He declined to run for a fourth term ( he was succeeded by Allen Boyd ) and in 1997 was asked by President Bill Clinton to become the United States's first post-war ambassador to Vietnam.
The Yalta Conference, sometimes called the Crimea Conference and codenamed the Argonaut Conference, held February 4 – 11, 1945, was the wartime meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union, represented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and General Secretary Joseph Stalin, respectively, for the purpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization.
All three leaders ratified previous agreements about the post-war occupation zones for Germany: three zones of occupation, one for each of the three principal Allies: The Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Following the war, the pace of development exploded, triggered by the return of soldiers in need of housing and white flight, a common occurrence throughout the United States during the post-war period.
Italians continued to immigrate after the war, and an estimated 600, 000 arrived in the United States in the post-war decades.
Otto promoted the dynasty's role in a post-war Europe and met regularly with Franklin Roosevelt ; Robert was the Habsburg representative in London ; Carl Ludwig and Felix joined the United States Army, serving with several American-raised relatives of the Mauerer line ; Rudolf smuggled himself into Austria in the final days of the war to help organise the resistance.

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