Word: midwest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When the builders complete a channel that deep, 80% of the world's cargo ships will be able to steam-with at least a few inches of water under their keels-into any port along the Great Lakes' 8.300-mile shore line. Cities in the great Midwest of the U.S. will become ocean-going ports. Chicago will be linked to Calcutta, Duluth to Antwerp, Toronto to Brisbane. Detroit's Chrysler Corp. will be able to ship a Plymouth sedan to Oslo for $45 less than the cost of the rail-ocean haul through New York. Wheat will...
Most of the improvement showed up in the West, the Southwest and the Rocky Mountain region; truckers in the Midwest, the South and along the Atlantic Coast were still in trouble. Building materials hauled were up 12.2% for the first quarter above last year, reflecting the rise in construction, and shipments of liquid petroleum, household goods and refrigerated liquids and solids were also...
...sometimes the more incongruous-the package, the greater the appeal. California's Thoro-fed Dog Food watched sales jump 40% when it wrapped Fido's dinner in gleaming gold foil. Among the new gimmicks: multiple-unit "specials," with three, six and twelve items in a pack. One Midwest chain reports that it sold only nine cans of sauerkraut a week at a dime apiece, but 441 cans priced at ten cans for $1. A West Coast petfood packer sells more three-can packages priced at 29? than three individual cans priced at 9? apiece...
...this reason, the movement to found Harvard Clubs started in the midwest and the west, and since that time the allegiance of the alumnus in areas other than the New England and Middle Atlantic States has been to the Club rather than to the Class...
...friendly analyst of his native Midwest, Newsman Martin has turned his fact finding into eight books, but flopped the one time he tried a novel. (The publisher sent him a one-sentence comment: "You had better stick to nonfiction.") Says Martin: "I've always been interested in the individual human being and what happens to him in a society that really doesn't work as well as it should. I think that's the common denominator of my work. Sounds kind of pretentious, but I think...