Word: midwest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...highway repair jobs; in many areas the sky was bright blue and white clouds sat motionless as mashed potatoes on the horizon. Early bugs died on windshields on Connecticut's Merritt Parkway. Sunbathers gathered in tentative knots along Los Angeles beaches despite ocean fog. Across the Midwest, spring plowing went on day & night; tractors with headlights rumbled across fields after dark like one-eyed monsters. From coast to coast men pulled on high boots and went fishing...
...stamping ground, because he was losing his mind and getting talkative. From the Barkers' overstuffed, garish headquarters in Tulsa, she engineered her boys' forays right down to the detail maps for the getaway, and she made the Barker-Karpis mob the terror of the Midwest...
Wedding Presents. B. H. &G. is the major moneymaker of Des Moines's huge Meredith Publishing Co., a family-owned concern which during its last fiscal year netted $2,862,276. Among the Meredith publications: Successful Farming (circ. 1,200,000), beamed at prosperous Midwest farm families, and the Better Homes and Gardens Cook Book, which has sold 3,000,000 copies (87,000 so far this year). Last week the sprawling Meredith plant along the banks of the Raccoon River was spreading out again. It needed more space to house its peak staff (1,446) and five...
...bestseller lists, said S.R.L., reporting bookstores are not weighted as to sales volume. "Thus, the Greenwood Book Shop in Wilmington speaks with the same power as Marshall Field in Chicago, largest book outlet in the Midwest . . ." It cited Harcourt, Brace & Co., which had checked the actual publishers' figures of other bestsellers against the sales this year of its The Seven Storey Mountain, which was in eleventh place in the Times nonfiction list. Said Harcourt a month ago, in an ad in the Times: Mountain is actually leading the list. If any publisher could show better sales on a "list...
Massachusetts' three odd thousand compose nearly one third of the entire student body and the Empire State accounts for a quarter. The midwest sends definitely fewer students. It makes up little more than one tenth of the University population...