Word: midwest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quit the regular ministry to homestead, later to edit and write for the family's Wallaces' Farmer. He wrote a three-volume story of his life and a robust column, "Uncle Henry's Sabbath School Lesson," which was one of the biggest circulation builders in Midwest journalism. To grandfather Henry, who looked like an Old Testament prophet, the Old Testament stories were as fresh as the morning milk...
...Reserve. Last week, ready to sail home, the students reported on the land they had seen. Their favorite American: Eisenhower; their favorite state: Colorado. They had asked innumerable and pointed questions about Negro problems in the South, about isolationism in the Midwest. When one Midwesterner asked about the Marshall Plan, a French girl replied: "I do not wish to offend, but to properly discuss the Marshall Plan one should not eat for two days before...
...week. But the blanket is full of holes; for small dailies and weeklies there is no mass-produced American Weekly, This Week or Parade. Last week a new supplement got ready to cover these journalistic bare spots. Nowadays, which will start in the fall, has already signed up 305 Midwest papers with a total circulation...
Dismayed Her Crew . . . That night at Chicago Stadium he spoke before 20,000 Swedish-Americans who were celebrating the 100th anniversary of Swedish immigration to the Midwest. He pulled out that surefire issue-Communism-and used it as a sort of moral prop for his civil-liberties program, for slum clearance, old-age pensions, and higher minimum wages. The audience was friendly but calm...
...when a big, detonating "fireball" from space streaked across the Midwest last Feb. 18, the Chicago Institute for Nuclear Studies wanted a sample of it, and Dr. Lincoln LaPaz, meteorite hunter of the University of New Mexico, set out to trace one. It took him two months to find several fragments in Norton County, Kans. One of them weighed 130 Ibs. and was made of stony material mixed with globules of nickel and iron...