Word: heartlands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rolling heartland of the U.S., the corn stood brown and brittle in the bright October weather. Farmers tinkered over their mechanical pickers. It was harvest time, and some had started bringing in what early forecasts had predicted would be the second largest corn crop in U.S. history...
Last week, in the late Indiana summer, 65-year-old Fletcher Chapel stood as firm as its surrounding maples and oaks-still a modest roadside church, but a strengthened landmark in the rural heartland of U.S. religion...
...world outside Western Europe, was gone. This chilling calamity was ponderously proclaimed last week in unusual fashion-by a 1,054-page State Department white paper, weighing three pounds and selling for $3. Gone beyond recall beneath the Red tide (the U.S. was told) was the whole great heartland of Asia: the millions who had suffered first and longest the Axis onslaught, who had survived to resume their old fight against the armies of Communism. Bidding this nation bitter farewell, the U.S. Government seemed perilously close to adding: good riddance...
...which calls itself "capital city of the corn belt," was an all but deserted village last week. Few cars disturbed the quiet of its sunny streets; in the town's three taverns, business was slow. El Paso's calm was part of the rhythm of the U.S. heartland; it was planting time. Outside the town, Woodford County's farmers worked 14 hours a day to get their seed kernels into the ground...
...Face. Despite the laggards, the overall expansion of big & little business was remolding the U.S. industrial face. The greatest growth was in the Midwest, which seemed more & more like the industrial heartland (in Peoria, a barbershop proudly advertised: "Joe's place is a two-chair shop now"). In the Southwest, another empire was abuilding...