Word: midwestern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Geographically, Midwestern roommates are best. They are least conspicuous. Northeasterners are grubby, Westerners are loud, Southerners are two-faced. One must, however, avoid the facile generalization when considering the Roommate...
...work (but operating quietly behind the scenes to help it work), and 2) championing such pro-labor proposals as Taft-Hartley revisions, expanded minimum-wage coverage, improved unemployment compensation. His fellow Republicans listen with increased respect since, after diligent Mitchell campaigning, the G.O.P. made heavy inroads in Eastern and Midwestern industrial areas...
...some of the facts contradicted the independents' argument. To begin with, the biggest surpluses were in the eastern and midwestern oil districts that export very little oil. District Three, however, including Louisiana and Texas-the biggest exporters-showed a storage drop from 121.3 million bbls. in September to 99.7 million in December. Moreover, since only about a third of total stocks are what is called "readily dispatchable" crude (the rest is filling the pipelines or the bottoms of tanks), the 21.6 million bbl. storage decline between September and December was highly significant. It meant that over half the readily...
William Maxwell's What Every Boy Should Know is perhaps the most moving and wryly humorous story in the book. Set in a Midwestern small town, it tells of young Edward Gellert's stumbling entry into puberty and the total failures of communication between the very young and the rest of the world...
FREIGHT RATE HIKE sought by U.S. railways will be opposed by representatives of 21 Midwestern, Southeastern states in Interstate Commerce Commission hearings. Opponents claim railroads' requested 15% rate increase will cost shippers $1,250,000,000 a year...