Word: midwest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...played the fiddle. When he was offered two engagements, he filled one, hired a second band to fill the other. He saw at once that there was money to be made in musical bookings. The following summer he was collecting agent's fees from bands in four Midwest states. With the proceeds, he set off for the University of Vienna to study ophthalmology...
...production in the Midwest is 30 to 40% less than a year ago, despite a bumper crop of feed corn. The reason: the price of corn is fixed too high in relation to the fixed price of hogs...
...Packers are buying the cheaper-and lighter weight-grass-fed cattle instead of corn-fed cattle. Reason: because the prices of corn and range cattle are high, fattened cattle are too expensive. Midwest feed-lot operators charged that this resulted in a senseless waste of meat. Cattle moving from the ranges to the feedlots for finishing on corn would gain 300 to 500 Ibs. of rich, marble-grained beef...
...pioneers, Indians and the weather were mild risks compared with the dangers of sickness-and doctoring. In The Midwest Pioneer, His Ills, Cures & Doctors (R. E. Banta, $5), published last fortnight, Indiana Historians Madge E. Pickard and R. Carlyle Buley tell about the medical terrors of the early Century...
...Secretary of the Kansas City Board of Trade reckoned that the railroads should have 140,000 cars in service to move last year's wheat from the country elevators. But even if the Eastern railroads could spare that many, cars for delivery to the Midwest, there was not much chance of the cars staying there. Last week the grain trade reported that the Army was in the market for 140 million bushels of wheat, 900,000 tons of flour for shipment overseas. Thus as fast as cars arrived in the West they would be loaded with Army grain...