Their sense of economy is strictly Depression-era.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bonesetter's Daughter]

Bank Bills = Congress lifts Depression-era barriers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Special Snow Job Edition] Reference

But any parallel with Depression-era America ends there.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best Hope Is Stagnation] Reference

Called "Flora Plum," it is set in a Depression-era circus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Battle For Summer] Reference

LONG: Inspiration came early from his Depression-era father.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 17, 2009] Reference

Depression-era CEOs, highly sensitive to job insecurity, retired.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Big Hiring Freeze] Reference

The furniture was heavy Depression-era stuff thrift-shop treasures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devil's Waltz]

How farm subsidies went from Depression-era relief to modern-day pork.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 30, 2007] Reference

It's tantamount to Al Capone opening free soup kitchens in Depression-era Chicago.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Hughes: Calling Pakistan's Floods 'Zardari's Katrina' is an Insult to George W. Bush] Reference

Yet his Depression-era parents discouraged him, warning that a scribbler's life was hard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taran Wanders Again] Reference

Born Barbara Murray in Depression-era Washington, her parents divorced when she was a child.    From Wordnik.com.  [Author Barbara Holland, 77] Reference

So I think what she has said, using this Depression-era mechanism isn't always a good thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 24, 2008] Reference

Two paupers in tattered Depression-era garb, begging door to door, battered fedoras in hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trick-Or-Treating with Sarah Palin: David Friend] Reference

You're looking at foreclosure rates in parts of this country approaching Depression-era rates.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 5, 2008] Reference

The Glass-Steagall Act is the Depression-era law that separated commercial and investment banking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shattering Glass-Steagall] Reference

Growing up poor in the Depression-era South, Brown said he shined shoes and danced for spare change.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 28, 2006] Reference

The Fed took a Depression-era plan out of mothballs to help Bear Stearns survive a severe cash crisis.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 14, 2008] Reference

The theme of that Depression-era show, strangely enough, was a look ahead to the promised miracle of TV.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Haunted Honeymooner] Reference

In fact, as a young man, Mathias read that Depression-era classic "Think and Grow Rich," by Napoleon Hill.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unlikely Story Of One Poor Haitian Who Got Rich] Reference

But its only modern museum was shoehorned into two floors of the Depression-era Memorial Veterans Building.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Museum By The Bay] Reference

Besides collectibles like Depression-era glassware, the sale is known for the homemade BBQ that dots its route.    From Wordnik.com.  [TRAWLING FOR TAG-SALE TREASURE] Reference

In a way, it's sad to compare today's thunderingly loud yet sterile air shows to their Depression-era counterparts.    From Wordnik.com.  [William Astore: Major Sporting Events: Too Corporatized, Too Controlling, Too Much] Reference

Gould's Depression-era detective, born in the Detroit funnies in 1931, reached the peak of his popularity in the '50s.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tracymania] Reference

And for people like me who grew up the children of Depression-era parents in very poor places, it had a profound impact.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remarks By The President And First Lady At Vogue Reception] Reference

Obama isn't proposing to reconstitute Glass-Steagall, the Depression-era law that separated commercial and investment banks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama's Get Goldman Plan] Reference

In retrospect, it is obvious that Social Security's Depression-era opponents engaged in fear-mongering, not economic reality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter Dreier: Lessons from FDR: When the Right Cries Wolf, Bite Back] Reference

In the finest scene in this dazzling first novel about boyhood, the Depression-era town of Aliceville, N.C., gets electricity.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Swell Book About A Good Boy] Reference

It's about a Depression-era boxer, who sort of overcomes breaking his hand to come back, and it's a real inspiring, true story.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 20, 2005] Reference

And if you read between the lines of Obama's address, you can detect some Depression-era blithe spirit poking through the gloom.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Quitter Economy] Reference

The subsidy was a legacy of the New Deal, created to help farmers survive in the face of disastrously low Depression-era prices.    From Wordnik.com.  [Housebroken] Reference

And so is the Depression-era boiler, the 1960s paneling in the family room, or the mismatched array of disco-generation appliances.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remodeling tips for first-time home buyers] Reference

Director Michael Mann (left) and actor Johnny Depp (right), with Jeff Scalf, nephew of the Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bryan Burrough: Behind the Book, Not the Camera: Bryan Burrough] Reference

Expect it to be mentioned often when the new company presses the U.S. authorities to rewrite their Depression-era financial regulations.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Global Gamble] Reference

It happened in the last couple of weeks, right before the Federal Reserve used a Great Depression-era procedure to bail out Bear Stearns.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 26, 2008] Reference

In city centers long queues formed like Depression-era bread lines, the people hungering now for cash from dispensers that no longer worked.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Euro Panic] Reference

(This in the spirit of Depression-era hobos who created arcane hieroglyphics to brand householders who might give a free meal to a stranger.).    From Wordnik.com.  [I Was A Wi-Fi Freeloader] Reference

Like other eccentric hobbies-breeding unusual pets, say, or collecting early blues recordings -- an appreciation for Depression-era architecture brings out the fanatic in people.    From Wordnik.com.  [What A Swell Ride It Was] Reference