Word: setbacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rainmaking got a bad setback more than a year ago when the Air Force and the Weather Bureau spewed quantities of dry ice into juicy Ohio clouds and produced hardly any rain (TIME, Dec. 6, 1948). But Nobel Prizewinner Irving Langmuir, leading backer of scientific rainmaking, is notably hard to discourage. Last week he told a Manhattan meeting of the American Meteorological Society and the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences about more successful experiments in New Mexico...
...major setback in Citation's comeback campaign. As every railbird knew, there was no percentage in punishing a good horse to win $2,900 (winner's share of La Sorpresa) when there was a $100,000 plum in the offing. If Citation's tune-up had been a shade off pitch, he nevertheless remained the heavy favorite to run off with the $100.000 Santa Anita Handicap later this month. What did furrow some trackwise foreheads was how Miche had managed the surprise-even granted that he was an established stakes-class horse and Glisson had given...
Seldom in Wall Street's history had stocks climbed so steeply (about 25% increase in values) for so long (seven months) without a setback. Consequently, many a trader had been predicting a stumble in the present bull market. Last week it came-and as usual caught many an investor flatfooted...
Lightning struck the same spot for the second year in a row. The lightning was Cadet captain Jim Smyly, the spot was the last 100 yards of the Harvard-Army swimming meet, and the result was that the Crimson got its first setback, 43 to 32, at West Point Saturday...