Word: midwest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Against this invasion the bargemen have fought long and hard-ever since Texas Eastern first asked FPC permission in 1954. But the FPC ruled that the Texas Eastern products line would benefit the public by stimulating competition, even though it might hurt the barge business. Already big Midwest refiners are seeking ways to use the proposed Chicago spur to their profit, while Sinclair, Texas and Gulf are talking about a similar products line to be constructed next year from outside Philadelphia to Cleveland. In addition, Texas Eastern got FPC permission last year to spend $74.7 million on a 422-mile...
...Bound on gutting the bill, Southern legislators rallied around an amendment taking contempt punishment out of the judge's hands and putting it in the hands of a jury. The trial-by-jury cry, a ,pretty good rabble-rouser, stirred up so much emotion that many a conservative Midwest Republican found it a handy pretext for joining Southern Democrats on the amendment...
...Martin's job. obviously, was to offset this cornfield maneuvering with cloakroom argument. So effective were his efforts that, when the decisive vote finally came last week, the Southern Democrat-Midwest Republican coalition was punctured and the trial-by-jury amendment collapsed with...
With so much money to give, a foundation can easily tempt a scholar to distort his work in order to be pleasing ("Of course," says one Midwest political scientist, "professors distort and tailor their project requests. They aren't dumb. If they know the magic words to say to the foundation boys, they're going to say them"). The foundation must also be wary of overselling a university on a project that it really has no business taking on. It must support group-research projects-for teamwork is the trend-but it must be careful not to slight...
...from 21 ft.), enable the waterway to take deep-draft ocean-going ships of up to 10,000 tons and shallow-draft lake ships of 25,000 tons- almost double the present capacity. This is the first part of a five-year dredging program to open the upper Midwest to the globe-girdling ships that will use the new St. Lawrence Seaway. Said Army Secretary Wilber M. Brucker: "The final assault is being begun upon the barriers to the free flow of waterborne trade among the ports of the Great Lakes and those of the seven seas...