It was not so long ago, in the early decades after World War II, that we had fairly high savings rates.

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Above the factory floor, the semicircular gallery of the museum showcases the evolution of the Ducati motorcycle from the early days just after World War II, when the company introduced its first auxiliary bicycle engine (called the Cucciolo, or "puppy, " because of the distinctive barking sound it made), up through the company's first motorcycles in the 1950s and the road bikes and racing bikes that followed.

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After all, it was the Pentagon that gave an early boost to computers during World War Two, and then helped spawn innovations such as jet engines, lasers and digital networking in the postwar period.

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Then yen dropped 4.7% to 79.39 against the dollar by 3:00 p.m. in Tokyo, after hitting a post-World War II high of 75.31 in early trading, according to a Bloomberg report.

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