Word: setbacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...overcome his primary setback, Bill Knowland faces a statistically staggering job. To come within 100,000 votes of Brown in November, Knowland must 1) persuade seven of every ten registered Republicans to vote, 2) recapture the 23% of the Republican primary vote he lost to Brown, and 3) increase his 15% slice of the Democratic primary vote to some 25% in November...
...Matsu, promptly went onto the alert; in Washington the Department of State protested that Peking was "raising the specter of war." And in the process, Khrushchev's longstanding campaign to persuade the world that the Communist nations are just one big nest of peace lovers suffered a sharp setback...
...perhaps anticipated." So reported the monthly review of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York last week. The 1958 recession, said the review, probably reached its low point in April, and it was the shortest and the most severe of the postwar recessions. Though it warned that a mild setback might follow the initial upturn, as in 1949 and 1954, the bank saw hopeful signs in the fact that the recovery so far has been broader than in either of the previous postwar recessions...
...quite ready to declare the recession extinct or the threat of a setback ended. Automobile production sagged 19% off last year's rate; industrial building was off 31%. Canadians also kept an eye on the U.S., where an economic revival is certain to give an extra push to Canadian business...
Confirmed by History. Swope's beats for the World were often as highhanded as they were spectacular. Covering Europe in 1914, he charmed the German high command into letting him break the news that the submarine U-9 had sunk three British battleships ("the greatest setback the British navy has ever suffered"). So dazzled by Swope was James W. Gerard, U.S. Ambassador to Germany, that he disclosed confidential reports that Germany planned to launch submarine attacks against U.S. ships. Swope's story was promptly denied by the State Department, promptly confirmed by history...