Word: dairylands
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Willkie began poorly in Richland Center, deep in dairyland. Farmers gave up their Saturday night shopping to jam 2,400 strong into a red-brick high school. They sat apathetic through a long farm speech, delivered without fire. Then Willkie pushed on, to Neenah, Oshkosh, Fond du Lac. His party, including 25 correspondents, rolled along snow-covered countryside in seven shiny rented 1942 Dodges. Veteran Scripps-Howard Newsman Tom Stokes was reminded of a "glamorous Broadway star going back to the five-a-day ... or a major-league pitcher back to the minors. ... All the trappings of the big time...
Albert Lea, Minn, is a clean, wide-avenued lakeside city* of 12,000, a hundred miles south of Minneapolis, smack in the middle of the rich northern dairyland. It won the honor of being Freeborn County's seat about 80 years ago in a horse race. But Albert Lea is about to become something of a household word. Reason: it has made such an excellent and meticulous study of its postwar prospects that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, in a 55-page pamphlet, is holding up Albert Lea as a good example...
...observer said the town under a all of fire double, very quickly became a spectacle "like a grotesque dairyland...
...businessman's budget was a bust; he attempted to repeal the oleomargarine tax in a State whose car license plates slogan "America's Dairyland." Nevertheless, Wisconsiners tramped through snow and rain to give Republican Julius ("The Just") Heil, 62-year-old millionaire industrialist, another try at the Governorship...