Word: midlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best-run towns in the U.S. is Midland, Mich., a trim, 50-year-old company town (pop. 24,000) where 86% of the houses are owned by employees of Dow Chemical and Dow Corning. In the 1952 presidential election, Midland boasted the highest voter turnout (81%) of any similar-sized U.S. community...
...citizens last year made higher wages, owned more autos and TV sets, built more houses than those of any comparable city in Britain. But Coventry's boom is being blitzed by the government's deflation program (TIME, Feb. 27). The auto industry, which employs 60% of the midland city's 172,000 workers, last week was shutting down assembly lines and was cut back to a four-day week, while unsold cars spilled over onto abandoned airstrips and playing fields. And there was worse to come. Britain's No. 1 automaker, British Motor Corp. (Morris, Austin...
...Louis' Church of the Resurrection of Our Lord, Murphy and Mackey; Springfield, Mass.'s Congregation Beth El, Percival Goodman; Tucson's Faith Lutheran Church, Arthur T. Brown; Pacific Palisades, Calif.'s St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, A. Quincy Jones and Frederick E. Emmons; Midland, Mich.'s St. John's Lutheran Church, Alden B. Dow; Houston's St. John the Divine, Fred J. MacKie and Karl F. Kamrath with Hiram A. Salisbury; Los Angeles' St. Brigid's, Alfred V. Chaix and Ralph W. Johnson...
Pleistocene Minnehaha. Some 6,000 miles away, on a bleak, dry plain near Midland, Texas, the new-type scientific diggers got a full workout. Their problem was a broken-up skull, found 17 months ago by Keith Glasscock, an amateur archaeologist (TIME, July...
...Michigan State College, the three-year-old Kellogg Center has housed as many as 62 separate professional and industrial conferences in one month. M.S.C. also gives seven TV courses: (e.g., Greek Glory, Typing, Art Appreciation), and 92 off-campus courses for credit. Among them: Organic Chemistry in Midland, Mental Hygiene in Clarkston, Public Opinion in Flint, Basic Economics in Battle Creek...