The wary old man was a typical product of wartime rationing, postwar shortages and the rigours of the police State.

However, postwar shortages of materials made it difficult to accelerate new building.

From mid-1947 he headed the New York office of the Department's antitrust division, where he moved against price fixers in food, clothing, housing and other items subject to postwar shortages.

She agreed with Helen and Polly that the British were dealing with postwar shortages and privations magnificently, especially in compar- ison with the French.

Early postwar shortages had many makers searching for alternatives to steel, including Kaiser-Frazer.

The postwar shortages that had dogged construction were no longer a problem.

He demanded the finest building that money could buy at a time of postwar shortages.

Even Iraq's postwar electrical shortages play out as signs of consumer health: "One reason the electrical grid is being stressed is because Iraqis are buying so many new appliances."

She sent them food parcels and nylon stockings in a one-woman crusade to ameliorate Britain's postwar shortages.

Simultaneously, a decline in rail travel began as initial postwar shortages of automobiles ended.