Word: midwest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago last week, 300 WAC veterans from six Midwest states gathered sedately at the Congress Hotel, demurely turned down an offer from a gathering of neighborly meat packers to join forces...
Mildred Kieffer's suggestion for the "bringing of California architecture to the midwest and the mountain ballads of the South to New England" is not the sort of thing to arouse a violent, crusading enthusiasm; but the other proposals in the "Progressive" should be of considerable value to the delegates at Madison and to those at Harvard who are hoping for organized student participation in the solution of future problems in "social engineering...
Robert R. Young, who knows a lot about railroads and publicity, fired another broadside last week in his campaign to "wake up the railroads." This time, his full-page ads talked about the freight-car shortage which leaves wheat piled on the ground in the Midwest. Young thought the shortage could be lessened if the roads made better use of the cars they have...
...heat was the news most of the week almost everywhere in the U.S. It was hot in the South, hot in the Southwest, hot in the Midwest, hot and humid as a Finnish bathhouse along the Eastern Seaboard...
...Robert E. Wood, pre-Pearl Harbor leader of the America First Committee, who concluded that Europe was finished, who suggested that 20 to 30 million Britons, Belgians and Hollanders should move elsewhere, and proposed to write Europe off except for some "charity." There was endless grumbling, particularly in the Midwest, about U.S. exports of goods and foodstuffs. But millions in the U.S. were resigned to the idea that something had to be done in Europe-and that the U.S. seemed to be elected. There was a surprising willingness to support any plan that Secretary of State George Marshall might draw...