Word: setbacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...index would probably go down another two points in February from the January figure of 125 (1947-49 = 100). That would mean, said Riefler, that output since the postwar peak last October has dropped about as much as it did in the first four months of the "exceptionally mild" setback in 1948-49-Economist Edwin G. Nourse, who was head of President Truman's Council of Economic Advisers during the 1949 recession, told Congress what the current figures mean to him. "We do not have adequate ground for counting on a seconder third-quarter recovery," said he. "Remedies against...
Since many retailers have been living on their inventories and will soon have to order again, some businessmen think that the setback has about run its course...
While the varsity rested Saturday, the Yardling sextet journeyed to Exeter to suffer its first setback in six starts...
slight degree" since writing in the Manchester Guardian Weekly that the U.S. is in for a major slump, beginning this year (TIME, Jan. 11). However, Clark still insisted that there were more danger signals than there were for the minor 1949 setback, and that only a cut in taxes or an increase in Government spending big enough to create a federal deficit of $20 billion a year, would avert disaster...
...Improved Posture? John, meanwhile, had an even more discouraging setback-he threw his back out of , whack doing a tango and, after trying to keep on for two more days, finally stopped because of the pain. Daddy threatened to fire him if he ever started up again. Last week John was gloomily attempting to clear away the debris of his terpsichorean idyl...