Word: midwest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...came out of [a Midwest club], my secretary overheard a snatch of conversation between two of the older members. One said, 'It has been fine having the British Ambassador here.' The reply: 'Yes, we haven't seen a steak like that in the club for two years.' ... I might add the memory of a man who wrote to my son after a similar informal gathering: 'I always thought the British were apt to outsmart us until I listened to Lord Halifax. Now I know it is not true...
...Loadings. One answer to Europe's and Asia's emergency lay with U.S. grain farmers, who have about 365,000,000 bushels of wheat stored in their bins. Last week, as a rumor spread through the Midwest grain bowl that ceiling prices might be pushed higher, farmers took a firmer grip on their supplies instead of hauling them to market. Receipts of grains at Midwest terminals were down to a trickle. Great Lakes steamers, making their first 1946 runs to Duluth, Superior and Port Arthur, found scant cargoes at the cavernous elevators...
...people who read his rambling columns, "Bee" Behymer is as durable a Midwest institution as his paper, which is only 67. He has written for the Post-Dispatch since 1888, when the late City Editor Charles E. Chapin (who ended up at Sing Sing for killing his wife) took him on as/correspondent at Belleville...
...most of Spiegel's new hormones were self-generated in a razzle-dazzle retail expansion program. Last week Spiegel topped it off by buying ]. & R. Motor Supply Co., operator of a Midwest chain of 55 stores selling auto parts, radios, work clothes, general hardware. Reported price: about $2 million...
...fever at Minneapolis, where a record 14,751 jampacked University of Minnesota's fieldhouse, was a measure of the epidemic spread of schoolboy basketball's popularity in virtually every Midwest town. At the final game of Illinois' state tourney, scalpers charged $60 for seats. When Anderson High won the Indiana state championship before a wildly cheering crowd, school closed for three days. Until tiny Danbury (Iowa) High (15 boys) was eliminated last week, R.F.D. Mailman Jack Colbert twice drove 300 miles to Iowa City in his jeep to see Danbury play, sped back...