Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their foreign markets would enlarge their capacity to serve the U.S. in emergency, greatly reduce production costs. The Army & Navy could see no reason why advanced models developed with U.S. Government dollars should be made immediately available to foreign powers and the manufacturers got nowhere with their arguments. Nevertheless, they continued to apply pressure. Reports have circulated freely this autumn that the British Air Ministry was preparing to buy 1,500 fighting planes from unnamed U. S. manufacturers. Last week Secretary of War Woodring and Secretary of the Navy Swanson, wearying of the pressure, decided to have the question...
...built when Foster was born in 1826 but erected later on a lot once belonging to Foster's father near the real Foster Homestead. The homestead, since demolished, was, according to best authorities, replaced by the building now called Pittsburgh's Stephen Foster Memorial Home. Nevertheless, the Greenfield Village guidebook still lists its Foster cottage as the Foster birthplace. Says Henry Ford: "There is no doubt of the genuineness of the home...
...China, the national economy of the country was roughly shaken when the U. S. Treasury drove up the price of silver (TIME, Aug. 20, 1934) and for months the Chinese people acutely suffered from the deflation this produced in their country. Nevertheless last week the very Chinese statesmen who were wringing their hands and cursing Roosevelt not many months ago joined in expressing joy at the President's reelection. For one thing, Mr. Roosevelt played Santa Claus to China with the thumping U.S.-China cotton Ioan. Proceeds of this are being used by Premier Chiang Kai-shek for public...
...years having elapsed, the question again appeared on every New York ballot. Rare was the voter who knew why it was there. It was not mentioned in any political platform. Candidates generally ignored it in their speeches. No civic agency seemed greatly interested in its passage or defeat. Nevertheless, when the ballots were counted it was found that millions of yea-saying New Yorkers had voted Yes on the convention proposal, overwhelmingly recorded themselves in favor of doing something about their Constitution, although nobody had suggested what. The convention is scheduled to open on the first Tuesday of April...
...only people with a foreign car." In another, an extremely British sales manager in impeccable striped trousers brings blushing shame to the cheeks of one of his salesmen with the hint: "I don't think it looks well for one of our representatives to run a foreign car." Nevertheless Edward VIII has a new Canadian Buick which the horrified United Kingdom industry considers "foreign...