Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...probe the mysterious Midwest. Réalités selected Galesburg, Ill. (which was crowned "an all-American city" by the National Municipal League in 1957), sent Reporter Danielle Hunebelle there to spend three weeks in the home of Galesburg Car Dealer Norman H. Weaver and his wife and four children. Mystified by the Weavers' un-Gallic ways, Reporter Hunebelle let them do their own talking, stitched together a series of candid Weaver monologues that runs for eleven pages in the magazine. She got to like them, though their pious earnestness and indifference to food were trying. "Generally speaking...
...fact, the old in general are less afraid of dying than of contracting a long and expensive illness that would make them a disastrous burden to their families or force them into the charity wards. People who might be able to live reasonably well on a modest income do not dare to spend it, feel compelled instead to scrape and save every penny against the day that they may fall ill...
...entire enterprise is, I fear, as ill-fated as that of the other American lady, Delia Bacon, who "proved" a century ago that Shakespeare's plays were really written by Francis Bacon. Bacon has now simply become Bachon...
Early Chains. As a "monopolist," Newhouse has to give considerable ground to the early U.S. chain builders. Beginning in the 1880s, and teaming with one partner or another, a onetime Rushville, Ill., farm boy named Edward Wyllis Scripps bought or started 52 dailies as well as a news agency (United Press) and various feature syndicates. Hearst, another prodigious newspaper buyer, acquired a total of 42 dailies, also had his own wire service (International News Service), a Sunday supplement (American Weekly), a kit bag of magazines, and even a film company (established mainly to produce star vehicles for his mistress...
...most respects, Bloomington, Ill. (pop. 36,800), is a typical bustling Midwestern market city. The one thing that makes Bloomington a bit different from the run-of-the-mill county seat is the presence of its largest employer, the State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. This week State Farm will report that its premium income for the first half of this year was up nearly 11% to $281 million, and that in May the company signed up its seven millionth policyholder. All this handily helped State Farm hold its rank as the world's largest automobile insurance company...