Word: setbacks
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Depression brought a bad setback to mechanization. In the first place, the farmers' gross income dropped from about twelve billion dollars in 1929 to about five billion dollars in 1932. In the second place, falling prices on farm products made mechanical farming uneconomic. With wheat at $1 per bu., the tractor-farmer should make twice as much money as the horse-farmer. With wheat at 40 ? per bu., the horse-farmer may make a little but the tractor-farmer will lose...
...counteract the setback to air travel caused by the deaths of Will Rogers and Wiley Post, Arthur Brisbane hopped off from Newark on his first transcontinental flight. From Cleveland he wrote, ''The stewardess-hostess-trained nurse, who is here to take care of you, has perfect teeth, very fine yellow-grey eyes and a green dress." Said he upon landing at San Francisco, ''Flying is reading the country by the page while land travel is spelling out the letters...
...rich' will not suffice to pay our mounting deficit. Inevitably millions of our citizens must contribute, each in proportion to his ability to pay. Incidentally, when this happens, and citizens realize that there is no Santa Claus, the popularity of loose public spending will suffer a desirable setback...
...Nazi rowdies. Already drafted, this protest had been scoffed at by the Nazi orators from Berlin who roared that: "The League cannot consider protests from an insignificant minority!" Not insignificant was 40.1%. From London to Moscow this week European editors referred to "Hitler's heaviest moral setback since the Blood Purge." In Germany, after Danzig returns were known, no German of any prominence would comment. The official Press, obliged to rave at somebody, raved against Danzig's onetime Nazi Premier Dr. Rauschning who appealed last week for anti-Nazi votes. When Danzig Nazi gangsters threatened to beat...
...Terrible, and it originated in commerce. From then on, English ideas and institutions began to permeate Russia; their influence in the reign of Peter the Great, for example, is notable, and not even the excessively francophile trendencies of Catherine the Great were able to give them any real setback. Locke and Newton, as we should guess, were known to the Russian intelligentsia, even if the knowledge was gained through French intermediaries, and Shakespere, likewise, as the whole history of criticism shows, is too great ever to be altogether ignored anywhere for long; he came into his own in Russia...