Word: midwest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...industries could point with such pride. There was still a shortage of electricity in the Midwest and along the Pacific Coast, though utility men had worked frantically to expand. They spent $2.3 billion and hoped to spend another $3.3 billion to expand in the next five years. Despite the hopeful speeches of many a steelman that supply would soon meet demand, the great steel shortage was almost as bad at year's end as at the year's start...
...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...
Because the last remnants of the estate of Samuel Insull, farthings-to-millions Midwest utilitycoon of the '20s, were cluttering up the basement of a La Salle Street office building, a Chicago judge ordered the old bonds, canceled debentures, stock certificates, vouchers, receipts, and canceled checks (about 50,000 papers weighing three tons) sold as scrap paper at public auction. Estimated scrap value...
...from the German) were Franz Werfel's Class Reunion and Felix Salten's Bambi. In 1929, disturbed by reports of Stalin's heavy-handed tactics and stories of the first party purges, he quit the Worker and in defiance of party discipline lit out for the Midwest...
...1930s, equipment improved and the game graduated from smalltime gyms to big-city arenas. The "10-second rule" was introduced, requiring the team putting the ball in play to be across the center line in that time; the old center jump was eliminated. Out of the Midwest and the far West came firehouse basketball and the fast break. The old distinction between forwards and guards was now all but forgotten. As coach of the New York (pro) Knickerbockers, Lapchick now spends most of his time setting up defenses to hold the opposition under 75 points, figuring that...