Word: contradictions
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Until last week Big Business left unchallenged the downright declaration in President Roosevelt's Jefferson Day speech in Manhattan that reduction of manufacturing costs meant not more but less purchasing power for the nation (TIME, May 4). Though the President appeared to contradict himself a few days later at a White House press conference while elaborating upon the high cost of old-fashioned building methods, his statement was overlooked by no alert businessman. Last week in Los Angeles General Motors' Alfred Pritchard Sloan, a representative of an industry whose history is most clearly at variance with the President...
...Another rumor she does not contradict: that the false sets were made of stainless steel...
Some geologists, notably the European, Wegener believe that South America and Africa were once connected as part of Gondwana land, which extended half way around the Southern hemisphere. The majority, however, contradict the theory, saying that the South Atlantic deeps are too old for the continents to have ever been connected...
...means of a laundry mark. Finally their efforts to outwit each other lead to a sequence in which, before the jury has announced its verdict in the trial, the presiding judge is flabbergasted to find it prematurely bannered in both the Star and the Express, in headlines which flatly contradict each other...
...Baltimore, Roy Hall, 21, who was washed overboard last November when a North Atlantic gale hit the S. S. Cold Harbor, walked into the U. S. Shipping Commissioner's office to contradict the official report of his death. He had somehow been spotted by the crew of the British freighter Maidenhead after swimming out the gale for two days...