31.   It was the first commercial bank closure in the postwar era.

32.   Japan is showing signs of emerging from a four-and-a-half year recession, arguably its worst slump in the postwar era.

33.   Large banks and film studios are taking multibillion dollar write-offs -- for the first time in the postwar era in some cases -- to account for mounting losses.

34.   Juan Manuel Fangio, the Argentine who was the first great race driver of the postwar era, died Monday morning in Buenos Aires.

35.   Miyazawa will be the first former Japanese prime minister in the postwar era to take a job in the Cabinet after serving as prime minister.

36.   Most were from what is now South Korea, but in the postwar era many were contemptuous of the American-backed government in the South.

37.   Much of the postwar era was taken up with bickering over who had the right idea.

38.   Or maybe it is something about growing up while the nation caught its breath in the postwar era and the Eisenhower years.

39.   Sally is the personification of well-meaning American gaucherie in the postwar era.

40.   Sigmar Polke, one of the most influential painters of the postwar era, has serious competition.