Word: midwest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your story serves as a reminder to us plain folk of the Midwest plains that not all corn is on stalks...
...merging railroads, which are concentrated in the northeast and midwest, plan to take in the Erie-Lackawanna, the Boston & Maine, the Delaware & Hudson, the Reading and the Central Railroad of New Jersey. Both prospering, the roads aim not only at giving the East two competitively balanced giant rail networks (each serving precisely 115 cities of more than 50,000 population) but also at rescuing from possible oblivion the four faltering, largely commuter lines (only the Delaware & Hudson is currently profitable). Says Tuohy: "We concluded that a merger that would take care of the indigent railroads would be most constructive...
...electrical companies since the Great Conspiracy was uncovered. He ordered the General Electric Co. and the Westinghouse Electric Corp. to pay $16.8 million in damages to the Ohio Valley Electric Corp. and its subsidiary, Indiana-Kentucky Electric Corp., for overcharging on eleven steam-turbine generators that the two Midwest utilities purchased...
...clout her in the snoot, and had to be restrained from doing so. The object of these strong sentiments is the Chicago Tribune's deceptively frail Claudia Cassidy, whose barbed pen has made her the most widely read and feared critic of the lively arts in the Midwest. She has written finish to many a career in Chicago, notably those of two local conductors who left after continual Cassidy pannings...
...traded on the New York and American boards, whose prices they closely follow. The surge in the price of seats reflects the growing appetite among member firms of the New York Stock Exchange to join the regional exchanges-notably the six largest that do 99% of the regional business: Midwest, Pacific Coast, Philadelphia-Baltimore-Washington, Detroit, Boston and Pittsburgh...