From Thomas Jefferson High School in Brooklyn to Patton's 3d Army, where he helped to liberate Ohrdruf concentration camp in Germany in April 1945, he served his country proudly, raised a family in the boom of post-war America and built a profitable furniture business in northern New Jersey.
GDP growth: 1.2% GDP per head: $45,680 (PPP: $37,430) Inflation: -0.1% Budget balance: (% GDP) -8.2 Population: 125.7mWith the mini-boom of post-tsunami reconstruction fading, the country will return to the low-growth, deflationary environment of the pre-disaster years.
The second oil boom of the post-Soviet period has already given the country extraordinary wealth, the state oil fund having nearly $11bn of assets.
The episode helped bring about the 1949 National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act, which in turn fuelled the rambling boom of the post-war decades.
From the bright fox trots of the 1920's and 30's to the swing and Latin boom of the post-World War II era, Mr. Cutler and his orchestra prospered.
The original film, titled Gojira – a portmanteau of 'gorilla' and 'whale' (kujira) – appeared amid the economic boom of Japan's post-war period, at a time when H-bomb testing in the Pacific had created a climate of fear about radiation in Japan.
It makes sense then, at this anxious, fingers-crossed moment of "post" (post-boom, post-Rudy, post-9/11) to rummage in history for a usable past, an adaptable "pre".
In the post-liberalisation boom of the mid-1990s, Tata saw its lorry sales soar by 30-40% a year.
You then pay off the debt in the good times, when we are growing again – just as the US painlessly paid down a far bigger build-up than ours in the post-stimulus boom of the 1950s.
It didn't work when it was tried in the decade before the Great Depression," Mr Obama said, "It's not what led to the incredible post-war boom of the 50s and 60s.
It's not what led to the incredible post-war boom of the 50s and 60s.
