Sentences with phrase «until after the second world war»

Still, to put things in perspective, the U.S. dollar didn't become a global reserve currency until after the Second World War, 150 years after it was created and three decades after the Federal Reserve was formed.

Right down until after the Second World War, even city - dwelling cats had to make a living on mice.

Glaciers inside its crater weren't discovered until after the second world war.

Perhaps anxious to avoid unintentional libel, authors who wrote rural mysteries often resorted to setting their stories in «Midshire» or «Wessex,» a habit that persisted until after the Second World War.

Few European countries had Picassos in their public collections until after the second world war; the Netherlands, for example, with stronger modernist credentials than Britain, publicly owned no Picasso painting until the 50s.

New York's streets are narrow and have been one - way for almost a hundred years, but the avenues are wide and according to the New York Times, they were not converted to one - way until after the Second World War, between 1951 and 1956, the era when cars really took over our cities.

century, large - scale production did not begin until after the Second World War, and plastics made from fossil hydrocarbons grew to become the third biggest manmade fabric output, after cement and steel.

Although polymers such as Bakelite appeared early in the 20th century, large - scale production did not begin until after the Second World War, and plastics made from fossil hydrocarbons grew to become the third biggest manmade fabric output, after cement and steel.

But it wasn't until after the Second World War, in 1952, that they amalgamated their law practices, which by then included Clark's son and a number of other partners.

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To look backward again for a moment, after the first world war the hunger blockade imposed on Germany and kept up for several months after Germany had surrendered was one of the things that made the German spirit rankle until it could be goaded into a second world war.

I knew him very well and am sure that he was one of the most alert and valuable members of the Oxford faculty during the 1930s and after the Second World War until his retirement.

Soon after this the Europeans gained a stranglehold on the economic life of the area which did not begin to be broken until after the first and second World Wars.

This really did not get under way until during and after the Second World War, but even in the late «30's there was a move in that direction.

Although about a third of British industry was taken into public ownership after the Second World War, and remained so until the 1980s, the right of the party were questioning the validity of expanding on this objective by the late 1950s.

It says a great deal for the skill of the British secret services (not a phrase one gets to use too often) that the very existence of one of the most important operations of the Second World War managed to be kept from the general public until the best part of 40 years after the conflict ended.

The railway operated mainly as a tourist line in the summer months until it was damaged during the Second World War and subsequently closed after the division of Germany during the Soviet Era.

He didn't take up painting until he was 29, after the Second World War.

After the Second World War he taught at the Penzance School of Art until 1965, exhibiting at the RA in 1960 and elected as associate in 1967.