Word: midwest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...across the mountains. Similarly, the high cost of transport tends to bar Alberta oil from the Ontario and Quebec industrial areas, which are supplied by pipelines from the U.S. and tankers from the Caribbean and the Middle East. Thus the fields' natural market is the oil-hungry U.S. Midwest, which can be reached easily from Alberta...
...police station, Montgomery recalls, he was beaten up by the cops and the prosecutor told him, "if you were down in Georgia or Mississippi ... we would turn you over to the K.K.K., and we are liable to do it up here." The Ku Klux Klan was strong in the Midwest in those days. Jim Montgomery's trial, on a capital charge, lasted only one day. The prosecution offered no convincing medical proof of rape, but the jury convicted him anyway. He was sent to Joliet for life...
Last spring a Denver bartender named Lloyd ("Red") Barker was shot and killed by his wife. Local newspapers first carried it as a routine homicide, then speculated that the victim might be the last of the four notorious Barker brothers who, with their gangster mother, terrorized the Midwest in the '30s. Barren Beshoar, chief of our Denver news bureau, set out to find...
...true niece of Bertie McCormick, Bazy could not resist a pat on the back for the Midwest as "the heart and soul and stability of the country" and the back of her hand for Washington, which she called "a parasite community." But she thought it her duty to settle among the parasites. As Bertie said: he and Bazy owed it to the U.S.-at a time when "the Administration and the State Department are disloyal"-to present "the American point of view in Washington...
During the past two years, a drawling, 220-lb. man with a brier pipe in one hand and a notebook in the other has been wandering along the East Coast and through parts of the Midwest talking to people. He has popped up in all sorts of places, and chatted over everything from tea to corn whisky and orange bitters. "I always follow the custom of the country," says Raven Ioor (pronounced yore) McDavid...