Word: midwest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days gone by, the rich of Chicago, Detroit, and the rest of the Midwest solved their vacation problems simply: they went to New England. But then they discovered some treasures of their own closer at hand, notably the northern tip of Michigan's lower peninsula, which juts out between Lake Michigan and Lake Huron. The result was resorts like Charlevoix, Wequetonsing and Harbor Point. Often they are patterned after classic New England counterparts. They are family oriented, many elaborately unostentatious, and no effort is made to attract outsiders?though well-sponsored families from as far away as St. Louis...
...downtown motel in the Treadway headquarters town of Rochester, N.Y., and an Alpine chalet in Franconia, N.H., known as the Mittersill Inn. Most of Treadway's inns are in New England, but some are scattered as far away as Virginia and Texas; now Treadway is moving into the Midwest, plans to open seven units a year there from...
...been explained as the response of the United States to the new pressures of leadership in the cold war world; as the reaction of the nouveaux riches to the insecurity of constant acquisitiveness and precarious status; as the dislike by the remnants of the old Republican coalition (rural, midwest) for the New Deal generation and the Roosevelt coalition (urban, east); and as the hatred of the hyphened Americans (the Italian- and German-Americans) for the second-class citizenship imposed upon them by World War II (by attaching Communism, the thesis holds, these immigrant groups not only gained revenge against...
...phosphate plant in Bayonne, France, which it will supply from one of the world's richest rock-phosphate mines, jointly owned by Grace and French interests in the African Republic of Togo. In the U.S., Grace is completing a factory near Buffalo for reprocessing nuclear fuel. In the Midwest, it is opening 200 Grace Green-towns, rural centers at which farmers can get advice and buy Grace fertilizers, insecticides and weed-killers...
...matter how solid they look on paper. In 91 years only one invader from California has been able to win the Derby--the great Swaps. It takes most equines quite a while to adjust from the lightning-fast strips in the West to the sandler racing surfaces in the Midwest and East...