Word: midwestern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...closed-door, pre-banquet luncheon before 150 G.O.P. fund raisers from nine Midwestern states, Humphrey tried to straighten some of the hair he had frizzed during the budget flap last winter, when he remarked that continued big budgets would bring on a hair-curling depression. Said he: "I think you might just as well admit that there is a wave of criticism, a wave of disappointment, a wave of complaint that is going all over the country-here in Chicago, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, in a lot of places. It is more prevalent with just the kind of people who are right...
SEAWAY BATTLE over St. Lawrence will flare up again next month when U.S. and Canadian governments begin work on setting toll rates. Eastern businessmen, railroadmen, truckers and shippers (who originally opposed seaway, now favor it) have formed 22-state group to fight for high tolls, which would make Midwestern ports less competitive. But Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Association is lobbying hard for rock-bottom tolls in first years of the seaway to attract new business...
RESTLESS combines growled and rattled across the rippling wheat fields of the Northwest. In the South, newly picked cotton sped through gins and balers. Midwestern farmers sweated in fields of hay and ripe, yellow oats. Across the nation, the yearly harvest was under way, and despite drought in the Northeast, the worst in 35 years or more, many a U.S. farmer could agree with Fred Hill of Umatilla County, Ore. Pushing back his Stetson, lanky Farmer Hill, 44, cast an admiring eye over a field of ripened wheat and said with a grin: "The Lord's been good...
Though a few small Midwestern plants made quick settlements, many of the larger companies, e.g., U.S. Steel's Universal Atlas Co., settled down to fight just as stubbornly as the union. A long fight may be in the making. A New York Times report speculated that cement manufacturers, looking forward to the golden days of the $50 billion federal highway program, are getting set to hike cement prices; a strike, settled in due season-with added costs-would provide just the occasion. "When the negotiations make very little headway all over," added a Government labor expert in Washington, "such...
...students spontaneously adopt American mannerisms: they dress in the casual Midwestern collegiate style, sip Cokes and malteds at a hangout called Uncle Sam's, annually elect a Miss A.U.B., a Miss Lebanon, and a May Queen. But beneath these superficial Americanisms, the fever of Arab nationalism seethes in every corner of the campus. "My friends," says one student, "are interested in two things: politics and sex, and sex comes in a poor second." Professors estimate that while only a handful (about 20) are Communists, at least 60% of the student body are violently pro-Nasser, and almost all support...