Word: midwest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...victory was the third in as many weeks and the fifth of the season for the outstanding Crimson squad, and entitles them to compete in the War Memorial Trophy Regatta at Annapolis, Nov. 18-19, against top sailing colleges from the Midwest and Middle Atlantic states...
...Billion Loss. But Freeman reckoned without the skill of American farmers, who boosted production on their curtailed acreage by the liberal use of fertilizer and intensive cultivation. In addition, the summer weather through the Midwest was nearly perfect for the crops: days of warm sun broken just often enough by rain. As a result, corn and sorghum production was off only 490 million bushels. From present signs, the $1.8 billion stockpile of surplus corn will be reduced only slightly. To make matters worse, many farmers who cut feed-grain production made a killing by using their fields to raise soybeans...
...photographer's bidding, returned from her latest tour to report a minor sociological phenomenon: regional differences among photographers in the word they ask their subjects to say in order to produce an animated expression. In Hollywood, reports Miss Vanderbilt, the favorite word is ''sex." In the Midwest, it is "cheese." In the South, "honey" or "really." In Manhattan, "money...
...Sioux Falls, S. Dak., Democrats from 14 Midwestern states powwowed with National Chairman John Bailey, who praised to the skies the record of his own party and denounced that of the opposition. "John F. Kennedy needs the obstructionist Republican votes of the Midwest replaced by progressive Democratic votes," cried Bailey, "in order to carry out the program you and I adopted at our convention and placed before the voters in our campaign...
High-priced executives are job-hopping across the U.S. as never before. In the Midwest last week, a leading engine builder sadly watched his cherished production chief move on to a firm that makes recreational gear. Farther east, one of the nation's biggest manufacturing companies lost a top manager to a Wall Street brokerage house. Behind these and dozens of similar moves lay a major new force in the U.S. corporate life: the executive recruitment firm...