Word: mid-western
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...Chicago Civic Opera Company is the descendant of the old Chicago Opera Company which gave New York's Metropolitan such a hard fight several years ago. But if the Eastern organization keeps on its way, tranquil in security and prosperity, the Mid-Western company faces infinitely disturbing questions and doubts. A little history will not come amiss...
Provisions are being made, particularly in the California fields, to store surplus crude oil, and by avoiding an abnormal increase in refining to prevent prices of gasoline and other products from break- ing to dangerous low levels. Some 30 Mid-Western refineries, including the Marland Refining Company's stills at Ponca City, Okla., are re- ported as closed during August. The principal exception to this general policy has been the Sinclair Co., which has recently opened its expanded refineries at Coffeyville, Kans...
...cratic Convention, the former because of the fact that Maryland has no active candidate for the Presidency and because it was from Baltimore in 1912 that the last Democratic nominee was successful in getting to the White House. The advantages of Cleveland are of course that it is a Mid-Western city and is in President Harding's home state, where the Democrats are 'as anxious as possible to develop publicity and prestige."? David Lawrence, political prognosticator...
...thin that when she essays the big and loud singing parts of opera she emits a shrill squeak. Nevertheless, the lady, with her enormously wealthy husband supporting her, has entered upon a new and spectacular campaign to achieve success in opera. Last season she put on several concerts in Mid-Western America. These were all failures and received universal dispraise. Mme. Walska, despairing of America, took herself to France, where the critics might perhaps be less disposed against her. A few weeks ago she was billed to sing Gilda in Rigoletto. It is to be observed that the management...
...Governors of seven Mid-Western states used these words in calling a National Wheat Conference at Chicago: "More than ten million men, women and children of the United States are directly interested in the production of wheat." The announcement was probably true, but the Governors might have added 'several thousand politicians who are very much concerned with the wheat problem...