Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...transportation was badly disrupted. At subzero temperatures, locomotives were unable to keep up steam pressure. The Ohio River was frozen from shore to shore for the first time in twelve years. Storms at sea delayed the Queen Mary's arrival for two days. In Chicago, where Lake Michigan pilings were so heavily coated with ice that they looked like Sherman tanks (see cut), water-system intakes had to be unclogged with dynamite. At Mayville, N.Y., a trial was suspended when the court clerk found that his inkwell had frozen...
With Eisenhower out of the way, the long-talked-about Taft-Dewey deadlock became a real possibility. Thus the chances of the dark horses grew brighter every moment. Last week there was a sudden new interest in Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg, who had tried to take himself out of the race but who had steadily been building up prestige for himself and his party...
...Michigan State 53, Harvard...
...newspaper's claim to the protection of the First Amendment, Pope told a University of Michigan audience, rests on its role as a common carrier of vital information: "Nevertheless, hundreds of newspapers habitually carry this information ... in the most horribly butchered and distorted form...
...like to see appointed [as a start] a University of Michigan committee to make the first academic study of individual newspapers, and to grade them closely on performance of their perpetual obligation to present a balanced and unbiased and intelligible picture of human affairs day by day. . . . Editorial pages should be analyzed for clarity and breadth of mind; financial pages for the general accuracy of the gobbledegook they use for English; columnists for evidence of hardened minds or ulterior influences...