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| 1936 |
| | | Unemployed English workers march for 26 days from Jarrow, in Tyne and Wear, to demonstrate at Westminster | |
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| 1938 |
| | | Mexico, newly rich from oil, nationalizes the holdings of the foreign oil companies | |
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| 1938 |
| | | The first shipload of oil is exported from Saudi Arabia to the USA after the discovery of commercially viable resources in Dhahran | |
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| 1938 |
| | | Wind erosion makes this the worst year of the Dust Bowl crisis in the midwest USA | |
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| 1944 |
| | | Ibn Saud and his US partners set up ARAMCO, the Arabia-American Oil Company | |
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| 1944 |
| | | The World Bank and IMF are conceived at an international conference in the USA, at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire | |
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| 1946 |
| | | The takeover of the Bank of England launches an extensive programme of nationalization by the Attlee government | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Australia, aiming for a 2% population increase each year, takes steps to encourage European immigration | |
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| 1948 |
| | | The Morris Minor is launched, designed by Alec Issigonis, and becomes one of Britain's best-selling cars | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Prime minister Ben Chifley sees Australia's first mass-produced car, the Holden, roll off the production line | |
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