Word: midwest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...take a boy from the Midwest, from Ponca City, Okla., for instance. Teach him to speak Italian, then put him in an apartment that is 20 years older than his own country's government. Put this apartment in the center of Rome about a block from where Julius Caesar was killed, where from his studio window he can see the church in which the first act of Tosca takes place. Let him become close friends with several Italian families. Let him visit the major museums and cities of Europe, and live the last three months in Venice...
Farm Prices. Thanks to lean years, the Democrats have made serious inroads into the state houses and congressional districts of the traditionally Republican Midwest. But 1958 has blessed farmers with bounteous crops-and hiked farm income 22% above last year. Agriculture Secretary...
With the big-brand companies moving in, fancy foods are expected to crack into the resistance area where they now must grub for sales-the South, the Midwest (except Chicago) and small towns all over. Virtually all fancy-food sales are confined to big cities; 60% come within a 300-mile radius of Manhattan. But they are spreading fast. In the past few years, the number of U.S. specialty-food stores has doubled to 6,000, and there are another 6,000 gourmet corners in groceries, drug and department stores, supermarkets, etc. It is in the supermarkets that the greatest...
...state legislators, rallied to his cause, though a surprising flock of younger men around the state seemed eager to campaign for him. Smart money gave him no better than third place in the eleven-man first primary. Odds-on favorite: Dry-Minded W. P. (Bill) Atkinson, 52, Midwest City millionaire builder and hand-picked candidate of incumbent Teetotaler Raymond Gary. Atkinson was shocked to see Newcomer Edmondson beat him in the primary, force a runoff with a tiny plurality of 427. Atkinson and the Gary machine fought wildly to catch up, but they could not match Edmondson...
...line pumping 70,000 bbls. daily to Los Angeles. Now a second outfit, the Texas-New Mexico Pipe Line Co., has built another line, with 50,000 bbls. daily capacity, from Aneth field in Utah to Jal, New Mexico, where the oil goes into the Texas Gulf and Midwest markets...