Word: contra
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Today Philip Bancroft is well hated in his own Contra Costa County, but well backed by the forces who feel Candidate Downey must be beaten. He has Herbert Hoover actively behind him, and also Senator Hiram Johnson who regards Sheridan Downey as too "shifty...
...With the Automobile Show only a month away, automobile production for the first time this year passed the 1937 level-25,554 units last week, compared to 23,222 year ago. Power output stood at a new high since November, only 2.9% under a year ago. Lumber output rose contra-seasonally and commodity prices, whose break in March 1937 first heralded Depression II, continued a rise that has been steady since early August...
...Contra this hearsay assertion, unsupported by facts, that France possesses the Paul Bunyan of banners, I advance the claim of Michigan to that distinction...
Emerald findeth no Memling Usura slayeth the child in the womb It stayeth the young man's courting . . . CONTRA NATURAM They have brought whores for Eleusis Corpses are set to banquet at behest of usura...
Employment still lags far behind production, latest Reserve Board index figure being about 85 compared to 100 on industrial output. Payrolls are even farther behind, at about 80. Contra-seasonal gains in factory employment and payrolls were reported last week, much to the "surprise" of Secretary of Labor Perkins, who said the increase was a "symbol of underlying confidence." Notable was the fact that payrolls' in heavy industry showed a 26% gain over May 1935. According to the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, the number of hired hands per 100 U. S. farms increased from 73 in the spring...