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A creature of post-War America, Barbie ushered in a new style of doll play, centered on acquiring clothes and using accessories.
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Imagine a post-War Europe dominated by the Soviet Union.
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CCNY is close to unique in post-War American college history for choosing more egalitarian admissions policies.
Matthew Yglesias » Meeting Obama’s College Attainment Goals 2009
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The foreclosure crisis of the Great Depression, when at one point 1,000 homes a day were going into foreclosure, gave way to a post-War housing boom that sparked foreclosure problems by the 1950s.
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Just look at any propaganda for the National Health Service and the welfare state from the immediate post-War period.
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But Socialism was fashionable in post-War Europe and Sweden was not immune.
The Swedish Model Johnny Munkhammar 2011
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As the post-War generation came into adulthood, they made shows like ABC's "Charlie's Angels" and "Happy Days" hugely popular—and hugely valuable to advertisers.
Television's Senior Moment Amy Chozick 2011
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I walk through East London every morning to get to work, and sometimes you can see the terrors of war superimposed on the modern landscape -- the sawn-off stubs of the iron railings that were harvested "for the war effort" (and dumped in the Channel without being turned into munitions after all), the single handsome old building stuck like an old tooth in the gleaming modern denture-work of sterile, post-War neubauten.
Boing Boing 2009
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Later that year she ran a series of women-only parlor meetings to get emergency donations for post-War relief in France, where Jewish refugees were languishing because of starvation and disease.
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For example, in The Road to Serfdom, F.A. Hayek conjured the triad of feudalism, fascism and communism to attack the post-War Welfare State.
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