Word: midwest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ourselves, we think of them as having a high level of intelligence, knowledge and taste. Among the newer readers, there are some fairly clear patterns. A full 80% of our U.S. circulation growth in recent years has been in the urbs, suburbs and exurbs of the East, the industrial Midwest and the Pacific Southwest. These new readers tend to be managerial and professional people, relatively affluent, and getting a little younger. A decade ago, more than half of TIME household heads were managers and professionals, and today the figure is just about the same: 53%. Over the same ten years...
Qualified workers are hardest to find in such industries as shipbuilding, aircraft and aerospace, metals, machinery and tools. In many cities, there is also a growing scarcity of teachers, nurses, social-welfare workers and even typists. Labor pirating by firms has broken out in the Midwest as a result of shortages of ironworkers, carpenters and cement masons. Contractors in Springfield, 111., are so short of bricklayers that they have enticed 15 Irish craftsmen to immigrate to the U.S., are clamoring for 40 more. Older people find it easier to get jobs because of the pinch: Des Moines Contractor...
...PAXTON: AIN'T THAT NEWS! (Elektra). Like many another contemporary folknik, Paxton writes his own songs rather than searching Appalachia for old, impoverished ones. The result is a running satire pegged on today's headlines. With a precise, Midwest enunciation and simple guitar accompaniment, he sings out against everything from Mississippi injustice to the subliminal threat of war toys...
...Behind Federated and Allied among U.S. chains, it moved closer to second place last spring by acquiring stock control of Oregon's Meier & Frank, a move that caused a bitter battle with Los Angeles' Broadway-Hale. Last week it moved still closer. Long concentrated in the Midwest and West, May moved into the populous Northeast for the first time by buying, for $41 million, Hartford's 118-year-old G. Fox & Co. Silver to Underwear. The May Co. was as much chosen as choosing. Family-owned Fox has been dominated for 30 years by Mrs. Beatrice...
...ground-up $600 million plant at Hennepin, 111. (TIME, July 9). Bethlehem is spending $400 million on a 3,300-acre complex of finishing mills at Burns Harbor, Ind. Youngstown Sheet & Tube is laying out $375 million for a blast furnace and finishing mills at East Chicago, and Midwest Steel, a division of National Steel, has opened a new $115 million plant...