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Word: midwest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...failures will persuade the Republican Party that it must develop a program of its own if it wishes to preserve not only its own political party but the two-party system." Matters had hardly gotten to that extreme stage yet. A closer danger was that Republican diehards in the Midwest seize on the defeat of Internationalist John Foster Dulles as one more proof that the bipartisan foreign policy was a political albatross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Stand for Something | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...finances it, the coming of a steel mill is an event that all New England can look forward to eagerly. It may well be the end of the gradual slump which this area has felt since the textile shutdowns in 1921; possibly, New England can one day rival the midwest in basic industrial strength. As one commenter put it, "When New England gets a steel mill, it will begin a new era of leadership in American industry...

Author: By Edward C. Haley, | Title: BRASS TACKS | 11/18/1949 | See Source »

...them would go along with some sort of company pension plan. Only 6% think the company should bear the entire cost. As for federal pensions, 89% would rather install company plans than pay for a major expansion of the Government's Social Security program. Growled One Midwest manufacturer: "Our whole system is degenerating to the point where something for nothing is a fad . . . The mad scramble is to be one of the fortunate few ... on the receiving end . . . Union leaders are playing the role of a master of ceremonies on a giveaway program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Something for Something | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...Fordham 7 7 7 21-42 SOUTH Tennessee 7 14 14 0-35 No. Carolina 0 0 0 0-7 Gerogia 0 7 0 0-7 Alabama 0 7 0 7-14 Duke 0 0 14 13-27 Georgia Tech 0 7 0 7-14 MIDWEST Michigan 0 7 0 6-13 Illinois 0 0 0 0-0 Purdue 0 7 0 6-13 Minnesota 0 0 0 7-7 Ohio State 7 3 7 7-24 Northwestern 0 0 0-7 Notre Dame 7 20 13 0-40 Navy 0 0 0 0-0 Wisconin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scores of Other Games | 10/30/1949 | See Source »

...London firm of Whittaker, Treacher & Co. thought so too. Barely two years later, when Cincinnatians were still guffawing every time they passed the crazy shell known as "Trollope's Folly," a book appeared that roused one of the loudest howls of pain and outrage ever heard in the Midwest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Feathers from the Eagle's Tail | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

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