Word: cornbelt
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...ordinarily welcome summer rains because they hasten the ripening of lucrative crops. This season's rainfall has been unusually heavy, accompanied by high humidity and winds from the hurricane-laden skies of the South. Last week farmers discovered to their dismay that the combination threatened calamity to the cornbelt states of Illinois, Indiana and Iowa, endangering the nation's biggest cash crop...
...What has Welk got? According to the critics, nothing. They think his Champagne Music sounds more like melodic 7-Up. His oleaginous manner and grin have won him some envious labels, including "Liberace of the accordion" and "Cornbelt Guy Lombardo." Replies Welk: "In order to be successful on TV. you have to play what people understand. Our music is always handled crisply. It's rhythmic and has a light beat all the time. Our notes are cut up so they sparkle. And, against the sparkle, we have an undercurrent of smoothness in violin, organ and accordion...
...January 26th, 1896, I entered your institution. I am ashamed to say that for five years I had drunk one quart of whiskey a day. On January 28th, 1896, I took my last drink." So runs a typical testimonial to the once-famous Keeley Institute in the cornbelt town of Dwight, Ill., long a Mecca for drunkards who wanted to get out of John Barleycorn's clutches...